Jefferson County Courthouse - Beaumont, TX
Posted by: WalksfarTX
N 30° 04.700 W 094° 05.600
15R E 394630 N 3327969
Fourth county courthouse is 13th stories high. Floors eight through thirteen of the courthouse once served as the county jail, one can tell by the barred windows. Today the space is used for storage.
Waymark Code: WMR47Z
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/11/2016
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From Rediscovering SE TX
Nowadays, the upper floors are used for storage, but the past is still very much present. The original graffiti and murals are still visible alongside the rusting iron bars, peeling paint, and 80-year-old cells.
Quote from the Beaumont Enterprise article from 1931:
No dark, dingy, buggy, and unsanitary hole, but six stories of airy, well-lighted cells, adequately barred it is true, but also provided with clean, light painted walls, hot, cold, and ice water at all times, shower baths, snowy white toilets and wash basins. The furniture is built in and indestructible.
Steel bunks built in, steel dining benches, and benches with the tables so built that they make a comfortable backrest when the prisoner wishes to turn around and lean back, are furnishings provided for the guests of the county.