{"nrhp_refnum":"79002240","name":"Old Indiana County Jail and Sheriff's Office","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6th St. and Nixon Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Indiana","county":"Indiana County","state":"PA","lat":40.62317460600008,"lon":-79.15187431499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-09-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Law","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick combined sheriff's house and county jail in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, built during 1887-1888, with the jail attached to the rear of the house and linked to the adjacent Second Empire courthouse by an enclosed walkway. The builder is listed as John S. Hastings and the architect as C.H. Sparks.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is significant as part of a law enforcement grouping with the courthouse and for its stylistic qualities, with the house and jail illustrating two applications of one Italianate manner. It also cites the jail's role in county law enforcement from 1887 to 1973, including the last hanging in the county in 1913, and the history of the land donated by George Clymer for the county seat.","narrative":"Built in 1887-1888 in brick, the Indiana County sheriff's house and jail form a single structure in Indiana, Pennsylvania, with the jail attached to the rear of the house. Both sections share Italianate massing, stone quoins, stepped brick corbeling and dentil cornices, while the house has bay windows, incised window caps and tooled porch woodwork and the jail has plainer facades with banks of barred windows. The complex served the county for 85 years, holding both the sheriff's household and prisoners. Its interior included steel cells, a central open hallway and separate cells for women and juveniles. The property was connected to the neighboring courthouse by an enclosed walkway, and the jail was used for executions until the last hanging in the county in 1913. The jail was declared inadequate in 1966 and its prisoners moved to a new facility in 1973. The land was donated by George Clymer in 1805.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Architect: C.H. Sparks; Builder: John S. Hastings","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Restored and altered; the 1978 restoration cleaned and repointed the brick, refinished woodwork and added a new floor in the jail section for reuse as offices.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.870297-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002240.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002240/7fb5c67503-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002240/7fb5c67503-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Canadian2006","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Indiana_County_Jail_and_Sheriff%27s_Office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian2006</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Indiana_County_Jail_and_Sheriff%27s_Office.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"93000366","name":"Downtown Indiana Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/downtown-indiana-historic-district-93000366/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995938","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Indiana_County_Jail_and_Sheriff%27s_Office","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7084271"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/indiana-county/old-indiana-county-jail-and-sheriffs-office-79002240/"}