Jail/District Attorney's Office
This piece of utilitarian Victoriana was once the County Jail - which outgrew it long ago, first into an addition to the back of the Courthouse (now thankfully razed) and currently to a "modern" facility in the Industrial Tract (talk about the "Prison Industry!") But this building, now used as the District Attorney's Office, still sports the heavily barred windows of its earlier incarnation. Sadly , a \"modern\" high-security entrance has replaced the old carved wooden doors (that's what the repairs in the brick work around the door show) and that horrible little metal roof added, but the lines and proportions of the original building - with all the charming ugliness of bulldog - remain.
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