Location Information
(for the Old Warren County Jail)
Name:(Old) Warren County Jail
Address:1111 Cherry Street
or 1000 Grove Street
City/County:Vicksburg, Warren County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1906
Architectural Styles(s):Colonial Revival, Neoclassical, Romanesque
No. of Stories:3
Registration Information
NR District Name:Grove Street-Jackson Street (2007)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:17
Mississippi Landmark Information
Designated:07-06-1989
Recorded:08-04-1989
Book/Vol. No.:V. 874, p. 569
Local Designation Information
Local District Name:Historic Vicksburg District
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Context/Comments
Built in 1906 and designed by William and W.A. Stanton, Vicksburg architect who also designed the Speed Street School (NR) and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (NR), the Old Warren County Jail--which retains its gallows--was built with the bricks from an earlier jail and on the same site. The jail, with elements of Colonial Revival, Richardsonian Romanesque, and Classical Revival design, is eclectic in style and is important because it is one of the largest and architecturally most ambitious surviving jails of its period in Mississippi.

It is listed as a contributing element (element #17) in the Grove Street-Jackson Street Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 21 November 2007. It was designated a Mississippi Landmark on 6 July 1989.

This building is included in the "Historic Vicksburg Walking Tour Guide" (1987) (#67, p. 49) and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p.70, in the listing for the Warren County Courthouses, YB1).
Brief Description
Three-story jail of masonry construction, on concrete foundation. Hipped-roof with covered with standing-seam metal panels has pedimented gabled projections at each corner, two on the west elevation, two on the east elevation. The main facade faces west. In between the two gabled projections is a large five-story tower topped with a pyramidal roof. Each side of the tower roof has a small louvered vent in a gabled dormer with a large pediment. At the base of the tower is a recessed entry behind a portico, supported by two pilasters and two Doric columns. Above the gabled blocks to either side of the tower is a parapet with stone caps. Windows are covered with metal bars and have stone lintels above. Gables are stuccoed with dentil-course cornice. There is a large brick addition with hipped roof on the rear (east) of the building.