What a difference 48 years can make – especially in terms of style or fashion.  The photos below demonstrate not just a change in stylistic preferences, but also in jail design.  Already out of fashion when completed in 1907, this crenelated example of the Richardsonian Romanesque style served as both a county jail and the sheriff’s residence.  Forty-eight years later a new jail was needed; this time the structure was to represent the latest in detention facility design.  Unfortunately, the austere modern lines did not mesh to well with the original  jail which is situated right next door.  The overhanging concrete eaves of the new building may even touch the stone walls of its neighbor.

Strange bedfellows.

At least the new building was not crudely grafted onto the old one; there is some distance between the two.  Does the eave touch its neighbor or not?

Too close for comfort.

View of a part of the front.