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Herkimer County Jail

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
72000846

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

Built
  
1835

Opened
  
1835

Added to NRHP
  
14 January 1972

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Location
  
327 N. Main St., Herkimer, New York

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Herkimer County Jail, also known as the 1834 Jail, is a historic jail in Herkimer, Herkimer County, New York. It is a two story structure with high basement, five bays wide, of ashlar limestone blocks with dressed quoins built in 1835. It features a gable roof with oval window and narrow cornice and a Federal style entrance. Tours are regularly given by the Herkimer County Historical Society and a museum display highlights the cases of Chester Gillette (the "American Tragedy") and Roxalana Druse.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

References

Herkimer County Jail Wikipedia


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