Ketchikan Federal Building, Government building in Ketchikan, United States.

The Ketchikan Federal Building is a six-story reinforced concrete structure on Mission Street with a two-story attached wing. It houses federal offices and includes a former jail area that now displays artwork.

The building opened in 1938 after the Ketchikan Women's Council secured funding through the Works Progress Administration. This New Deal-era program helped bring many such government projects to communities during the Great Depression.

Four murals painted directly on the concrete block walls of the former fifth-floor jail cells are believed to have been transferred from magazines and painted by prisoners who were members of the Tlingit and Haida tribes in the early 1980s. They are protected by Plexiglas panels and can be viewed only on a limited basis, since they sit in a private office.

The building stands at the southwest corner of Mission and Stedman Streets, bordered by concrete sidewalks and lawns on the northwest and northeast and by paved parking lots on the southeast and southwest. The four jail-cell murals are protected by Plexiglas panels and can be viewed only on a limited basis, since they sit inside a private office.

The exterior was originally painted white; the pink and beige colors seen today are not original. Replacement windows match the original wood material and proportions, and a two-story wing was added at the west side of the south end of the six-story tower.