1895, F. B. and W. S. Hull. Oatman St. at E. Haynie St.
Built in eight months by the Pauly Jail Building Company of St. Louis to the Hulls’ design, the Romanesque Revival structure housed the sheriff’s residence on the first floor and four cells and two drunk tanks on the second, with the gallows between the third and fourth levels of the tower. The local gray granite has a coarse, rock-faced finish and is set between thin courses of red granite. Inmates nicknamed the building “Red Top” for its red-painted metal roof. Men and women were incarcerated in the same cells, with hammocks for sleeping. The jail operated here until 1982. The building was rehabilitated in 2012–2014 by local volunteers.