Area less than one acre Architectural style Plain Traditional Opened 1912 | Built 1912 (1912) NRHP Reference # 05001077 Added to NRHP 28 September 2005 | |
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Location Alley behind City Hall at 118 W. Elm St., Prescott, Arkansas Part of Prescott Commercial Historic District (#08000818) | ||
The Prescott City Jail is a historic city jail behind the city hall of Prescott, Arkansas. The modest single-story structure was built for the city in 1912 by the Southern Structural Steel Company. It is built of reinforced concrete, with metal grates covering unglazed window openings, and a doorway that is reinforced with heavy metal shutters. It was built to replace an early jail, from which a suspect involved in the burglary of a prominent citizen's home had escaped, in part due to its poor condition. This building, housing three cells, served the city until the 1960s.
The jail was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
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