Moscow City Hall, Former federal courthouse in Moscow, Idaho.

Moscow City Hall is the administrative center of Moscow, Idaho, housing the city's government offices in a distinctive red brick structure with cream terracotta trim. The building sits on Third Street and blends Late Victorian features with eclectic design choices in its exterior.

Built in 1911, the building served as Moscow's post office and as a courthouse of the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and vacated in 1974 when a new federal building opened two blocks south. The city bought it from the General Services Administration in 1976 for $70,000, half funded by the state historical society, and it became the city hall in the 1990s.

The building's name changed with its uses: opened as the Moscow Post Office and Courthouse, later the Moscow Federal Building, and now Moscow City Hall. Before becoming city offices in the 1990s it served as a community center from the early 1980s, after a 1979 proposal to use it as a library was rejected.

The building stands in downtown Moscow, two blocks north of the newer federal building that replaced it in 1974. It is a working municipal office, so visitors should time a look at the red brick and ivory terracotta exterior around civic business rather than expect a museum visit.

When Moscow bought the building in 1976, it paid the General Services Administration $70,000, half covered by the state historical society, while the land alone was valued at $100,000. A bond issue for renovation was defeated in late 1986, and a 1979 proposal to use the building as a library was rejected.