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 Jail Museum Gonzales County - 1885 - Gonzales, Texas Posted by:  iconions
N 29° 30.093 W 097° 27.127
14R E 650039 N 3264553
This three-story grey brick and stone Italianate building is located on the northside of Courthouse Square - bounded by St. Louis, St Paul, St Lawrence, and St Joseph Streets in Gonzales, Texas.
Waymark Code: WMZA2Y
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/06/2018
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Gonzales County
Jail Museum
Built in 1885
Italianate style Victorian architecture
Remodeled in 1905
Eugene T. Heiner, Architect
Texas County Jails Designed by
Architect Eugene T. Heiner
Atacosa ~ Bastrop ~ Bee ~ Burleson
Coleman ~ Colorado ~ Galveston ~ Gonzales
Harris ~ Jefferson ~ Montgomery ~ Smith
Tarrant ~ Tyler ~ Victoria ~ Wharton
All of Heiner's jails have been destroyed
or remodeled for offices or other uses.
This jail by Heiner is the only remaining
example basically in its original form and
open to visitors.
Heiner also designed nineteen Texas
County Courthouses, a building at the
Texas State Penitentary in Huntsville,
and others.
Southern Structural Steel Co. of San
Antonio added iron doors and numerous
repairs to the cells during the 1905
remodel of this jail. After 1910, the
mansard roof and tower were removed.
The Gonzales County Jail is a three-story, tan brick, flat-roofed structure of cruciform plan. The southwest short arm of the cross contains the main entrance in a set-back bay. All of the trim is of tan brick.
A wide belt course divides the first story from the upper two stories, which are treated as a unit. The building has a heavy entablature with dentils, and is finished with a brick cornice and solid parapet. Wide brick quoins delineate the corners and inset brick panels are used to mark the division of the second and third stories. There is a paneled end chimney on each of the long arms.
The windows are grouped in sets of four on the long arms of the cross, and in twos on the front and back wings. Most of the fenestrations have brick hoodmolds, some as pediments, and some segmentally arched or round arched with fan motif and keystone. The upper windows of the long wings of the building have straight lintels. There are rectangular eyebrow windows at the attic level.
- National Register Application
Year built or dedicated as indicated on the structure or plaque: 1885
Full Inscription (unless noted above):
1885 Jail
Museum
Gonzales County
Website (if available): [Web Link]
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