Dubuque Old County Jail House - National Historic Landmark 1978
Style: Egyptian Revival
The County Jail was built in 1857-58 at a cost of $40,000, during the
financial depression of 1857; designed and supervised by Midwest
architect, John Francis Rague (1799-1877). Rague also built the former State Capitol at Iowa City, Iowa.
The Old Jail is one of only
three surviving Egyptian Revivalist buildings in the nation.
Ja-Mar restored and replicated the missing Winged Lions.
It is built of gray limestone (making the walls 18 inches thick) and
cast iron was used for windows, door frames, decorative columns and the winged lions above the windows.
