Champion Ironworks of Kenton, Ohio, designed and built this jail in the form of a Queen Anne house. O’Brien and Company of Natchez were the masonry subcontractors. The facade is finished in pressed brick, and the building is trimmed in cut stone. A front residential portion housed the sheriff, and a two-story cell block extends from the rear. In the 1990s, the county adapted the building for office space and preserved the cell-block, the separate holding cells for condemned prisoners, the hook for the hangman’s noose, and a metal trapdoor in the floor.