Canadian County Jail - El Reno, OK
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N 35° 32.110 W 097° 57.358
14S E 594647 N 3932894
Designed by the renowned architect Solomon Layton, this jail is styled in Italian Renaissance, toned down to blend with the basically residential area surrounding it.
Waymark Code: WMPF4Z
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 08/21/2015
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The Canadian County Jail has the style of a classical government building, but its size (47 x 58 ft.) enables it not to overwhelm the local neighborhood. This is a two-story stone building constructed in 1906. The walls are made of large flat stones, broken by narrow bands of rusticated stone. The building is painted white, with wood trim and eaves painted red.
The roof is hipped, originally covered with asphalt, now covered with composition shingles. The building is T-shaped with wide overhanging eaves with brackets. The roof has two dropped cross hips on the sides, and a hipped dormer on the west-facing front elevation. There is a stone water table on all elevations. A small basement toward the front of the building contains the mechanical and plumbing facilities and also a jailer's escape tunnel which led to outside escape hatches. Windows are barred, with second story windows on the west having diamond-shaped panes.
The entrance has four concrete steps, leading to double wood doors, flanked by two stone columns. An addition added in the 1950s which once joined this jail to the stables immediately to the east was removed in 1991. The jail is currently vacant and not in use.
The jail was added to the National Register in 1985, with the adjacent stables being added to the listing in 1995.
Street address:
300. S. Evans
El Reno, OK US
73036
County / Borough / Parish: Canadian
Year listed: 1985
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Architecture/Engineering, Event
Periods of significance: 1925-1949; 1900-1924
Historic function: Government
Current function: Government/Vacant Not in Use
Privately owned?: no
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 2: [Web Link]
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Hours of operation: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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