{"nrhp_refnum":"88001113","name":"Second Yadkin County Jail","other_names":["Charles Bruce Davis Museum of Art,History,and Science"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"241 E. Hemlock St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yadkinville","county":"Yadkin County","state":"NC","lat":36.13589497500004,"lon":-80.65635759099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-07-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, hip-roofed brick county jail measuring 22 by 36 feet at 241 East Hemlock Street, Yadkinville, North Carolina, built about 1892 after the first county jail burned.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the only surviving county government building from Yadkin County's first half century, supporting significance under Criterion A in Politics/Government. It is also a well-preserved example of a small county jail, a property type becoming rare in North Carolina county seats, and it has early fireproof metal and concrete construction (Criterion C).","narrative":"This small brick jail at the corner of East Hemlock and Van Buren streets in Yadkinville was built about 1892, after the county's first jail burned. The one-story, hip-roofed building has two rooms, one serving as the sheriff's office with two cells and the other as a \"bull pen\" for maximum-security prisoners. The county paid a St. Louis firm for cells and fixtures, and the metal \"accordion\" ceiling topped with concrete survives as an early fireproof system. The jail served until 1928, when a larger jail replaced it and the interior became apartments. The property was donated to the Yadkin County Historical Society in 1976, and later restoration removed the 1928 additions and repaired original materials. It was listed as the only government building remaining from the county's first fifty years and as a well-preserved example of an increasingly rare property type, the small county jail.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1892-1928","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Utilitarian Vernacular","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Restoration as a museum was essentially complete, with wiring and plumbing still to be done; a 1930s concrete block outbuilding is used for storage by the historical society.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.200921-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/94/7228/47722894/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88001113.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001113/9ef818441b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001113/9ef818441b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"G Keith Hall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2nd_Yadkin_County_Jail.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">G Keith Hall</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:2nd_Yadkin_County_Jail.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722894","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Yadkin_County_Jail","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23302934"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/yadkin-county/second-yadkin-county-jail-88001113/"}