{"nrhp_refnum":"74001764","name":"Carbon County Jail","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"128 Broadway St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jim Thorpe","county":"Carbon County","state":"PA","lat":40.86394024700007,"lon":-75.74645846199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story rusticated stone jail with a square one-story guard turret, located in Jim Thorpe (formerly Mauch Chunk), Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was designed in 1869-70 by John Haviland and built by local builder Henry Bowman.","why_significant":"The jail is associated with the imprisonment of suspected Mollie Maguires awaiting trial in 1875-76, events tied to labor-management conflict in the anthracite coal region. It is also cited as a good example of nineteenth-century prison architecture, and as a surviving building connected with that episode in Mauch Chunk.","narrative":"Built in 1869-70 from rusticated stone to a design by John Haviland, with construction by local builder Henry Bowman, the Carbon County Jail in Jim Thorpe stands two stories high beneath a square one-story guard turret. Its thick walls, stone quoins, arched windows and voussoirs give it a fortress-like appearance. The interior retains original iron cell bars and downstairs cells, and it continues to hold prisoners, with capacity for twenty-nine. The building gained its historical importance in 1875-76, when suspected Mollie Maguires were held here awaiting trial. Among them were Alec Campbell, James Kerrigan and Yellow Jack Donahue, all convicted of murder and executed. The trials drew national attention and are linked to the decline of early miners' organizing in the anthracite region. The jail is also valued as a well-preserved example of nineteenth-century prison design.","period_of_significance":"1869","architect_builder":"John Haviland (architect); Henry Bowman (builder)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a prison; the jail has a capacity for twenty-nine prisoners.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.393304-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/74001764.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001764/ed83c93bc5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001764/ed83c93bc5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JJonahJackalope","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carbon_County_Jail,_Jim_Thorpe,_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JJonahJackalope</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carbon_County_Jail,_Jim_Thorpe,_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995972","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_County_Jail","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5037904"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/carbon-county/carbon-county-jail-74001764/"}