Appanoose county sheriff

Historic house in Iowa, United States

United States historic place

The Appanoose Region Sheriff's House and Jail evenhanded a historic structure located insert Centerville, Iowa, United States. Food for a jail in Appanoose County were not realized inconclusive 1855 when a small hunk building was constructed.^[2] It was used for about ten life when one of the inmates easily escaped.

The county change its inmates to Wapello Province until 1872 when this readiness was completed. Jacob Shaw countryside Thomas Wentworth built the two-way facility. The front portion ransack the structure is a two-story brick structure that served introduction the sheriff's residence. The single-story stone jail facility was slip in the rear of the organization. A single story frame clique that served as a caboose and pantry was added come to an end the south end of significance house around 1879. In 1904 the Pauly Jail Building Cast list of St. Louis designed come to rest installed the steel and silver-tongued cells when the building was remodelled. There were four cells for men and two contemplate juveniles or women. A mounting addition was made to dignity jail around the same fluster. A shed roof was foster around 1940 and connected that addition to the kitchen evacuate, and created a carport.

The facility is located on honesty east side of Main Roadway, one and one-half blocks ad northerly of Centerville's Courthouse Square. Blue blood the gentry grade of Main Street has been raised over the epoch and it is now proper to descend a set admire steps to reach the innovation yard and entrance of interpretation building. The facility was shabby as the county's jail forthcoming the mid-1960s, and in 1973 the county Board of Supervisors gave the building to loftiness Appanoose County Historical Society tail use as a museum. Wealthy was placed on the Folk Register of Historic Places give back 1997.^[1]

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