Fort Dodge City Hall, Police, and Fire Department once stood on this site in an Italianate-style building that contained all city services and housed horse-drawn fire wagons. The horses were rented from a local livery stable, and the wagon was equipped with a wall and roof ladder, two kerosene lanterns for night use, and buckets, which were later replaced by a pump and 100 feet of hose. In 1914, a municipal building on 1st Avenue South was built to centralize city services. The old City Hall building was later sold to a clothing company in 1939, remodeled in 1952, and burned in 1976.