The Marine on St. Croix Village Hall is about to undergo a major remodel.
The Hall, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has served as housing for government offices since it was built in 1888. It is the oldest village hall in the state still being used for governmental purposes. It is currently used for city council and planning commission meetings and houses the community library.
The Marine on St. Croix Village Hall, pictured in February 2020, will undergo a major remodel beginning Feb. 17, 2025, to make city offices more secure and create a new waiting room area for visitors with window access to the clerk’s office. (Courtesy of Gayle Knutson)
The remodel, which starts Feb. 17, will make city offices more secure by enlarging the assistant clerk’s office and creating a new waiting room area for visitors with window access to the clerk’s office, officials said.
The current council chambers will be remodeled to create new office space for the city administrator, along with a smaller conference room meeting space. Other additions: a new accessible bathroom, updating of existing bathrooms, new kitchen space and a janitor’s closet.
During the remodel, administrative staff will temporarily move their offices to the upstairs of the Village Hall. City council and planning commission meetings will permanently move to the upstairs as well.
The $244,000 project, which is expected to be completed in mid-June, is being paid for with $184,000 in city funds and a $60,000 donation from the Marine Restoration Society, said Mayor Kevin Nyenhuis.
“We’ve been planning this for a long time,” Nyenhuis said. “This has a significant cost impact to a village our size, and we could not have done it without the participation of the Restoration Society.”
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