“Stone walls do not a prison make,” but this diminutive jail tries so hard to be stern and forbidding that it's almost a shame to say it's a sham. Constructed with rough-hewn sandstone blocks, the two-story building is ornamented with corbeled battlements at its corners, but the scale is so small that any sense of defense is lost. “Mock military” comes to mind as a stylistic term.
Braxton County Jail
State Historic Preservation Office, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Steve Creasey
Braxton County Jail
1905, Holmboe and Lafferty. Town Square, southwest of the courthouse