Lubbock County Jail - Lubbock, TX
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N 33° 35.124 W 101° 50.628
14S E 236069 N 3719812
The Lubbock County Jail is a 5-story Art Deco building at the southeast corner of Main Street and Buddy Holly Avenue in the heart of Lubbock, Texas.
Waymark Code: WM119DY
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/11/2019
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NRHP Registration Form"The Lubbock County Jail is an excellent representation of the Art Deco style with emphasis on the transitional influence between ZigZag and the Public Works Administration (PWA) or Moderne style of the early 1930s with embedded motifs and vertical ribbons of windows and columns on each elevation. The building’s long axis runs east and west with primary entrances on the north and west elevations with the main building extending five stories. The exterior walls are constructed of reinforced concrete with limestone on the ground floor and buffed brick trimmed in stone for the remaining stories. Abutting the east elevation is a two-story detention center owned by the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office, which projects south and east and trimmed in buff brick.
The Lubbock County Jail was built in 1931 to replace a 1919 jail that could no longer adequately serve needs of the growing county. Lubbock Architect Sylvan B. Haynes designed the jail in the popular Art Deco style using a reinforced concrete structural system with a brick and cast stone façade to create one of the most attractive buildings in the city. After World War II, the county twice hired Haynes to design additions to the jail, both of which were fully compatible stylistically with original design.
Street address: 811 Main Street Lubbock, TX USA
County / Borough / Parish: Lubbock County
Year listed: 2018
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Government, Architecture
Periods of significance: 1931-1968
Historic function: Government
Current function: Government
Privately owned?: no
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Hours of operation: Not listed
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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