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HABS VA,2-CHAR,26-; (sheet 11 of 11) - Albemarle County Jail, 409 East High Street, Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA
Title
HABS VA,2-CHAR,26-; (sheet 11 of 11) - Albemarle County Jail, 409 East High Street, Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA
Description
Morris; Spooner, George Wallace; McCue, Samuel; Lay, K Edward, faculty sponsor; Langhorne, Cary D, faculty sponsor; University of Virginia School of Architecture, sponsor; Smith, Lisa Ann, delineator; Fay, Daniel Wilson, delineator
Depicted place Virginia; Charlottesville; Charlottesville
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS VA,2-CHAR,26-; (sheet 11 of 11)
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  • 1996 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention
  • Significance: The Ablemarle County Jail, located one block north of Charlottesville's Courthouse Square, was constructed to replace an earlier jail building which was located on Courthouse Square directly west of the courthouse building. The two story stone building was constructed in 1876 with stones taken from the earlier jail. The brick annex and jail yard was added in 1880 and the jailer's residence added in 1886. Charlottesville architect George Wallace Spooner designed and built the stone jail and the jailer's house while the architect of the brick annex is unknown. The jail was the site where former Charlottesville mayor Samuel McCue was held in 1905 after being tried and convicted for the murder of his wife, as well as being the site of McCue's subsequent execution by hanging, the last legal hanging in the state of Virginia. This accretion of buildings stands as a complete picture of the evolution of penitentiary facilities from the middle part of the nineteenth century into the twentieth century. The Ablemarle County Sheriff's Department has owned and maintained the jail complex since its construction. This facility served as the only penitentiary in Albemarle County until 1974 when a new penitentiary was constructed south of Charlottesville. The jail complex has been used as a storage facility for the County since it closed in 1974.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N643
  • Survey number: HABS VA-1349
  • Building/structure dates: 1876 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1880 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1886 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/va1801.sheet.00011a
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Object location38° 01′ 56.75″ N, 78° 28′ 40.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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