Viewing Courthouses, Jails & Prisons Category (10) found:Mower County Court House (1911).Mower County was established on February 23, 1855. The county commissioners rented rooms for meetings from 1857 to 1868, when a two story courthouse was erected in Austin. In 1881, the commissioners authorized construction of a larger courthouse, which was completed and occupied in March, 1884.
Douglas County Court House and Jail (1916).Douglas County was formed March 8, 1858. Its first court house, completed in 1876, was replaced by an entirely new structure in 1895. The first county jail was erected in 1868; it was replaced in 1880 by a new building that was so unhealthy and unsafe that the state board of corrections and charities condemned it in 1899. In 1900, a new jail that had "every modern convenience" was built.
Grant County Court House (1916).Grant County was formed on March 6, 1868, and its first courthouse was erected ten years later. That was replaced by a new courthouse in 1906.
Building the Becker County Court-House and Jail (1907).Becker County was formed on March 18, 1858, but construction of its courthouse and jail were delayed for years because of disputes over the location of the county seat. Finally, on Decoration Day, 1885, the new courthouse and jail were dedicated in Detroit, the county seat. The First Court House of Faribault County (1896).Faribault County was formed on February 20, 1855. Its first court house was erected in 1872 in Blue Earth City. Fillmore County Court House and Jail (1912).Fillmore County was formed March 5, 1853. Its first courthouse was built by county residents, who furnished labor and bought the material. It was dedicated on July 4, 1864. Stearns County Court House and Jail (1915).Stearns County was formed February 20, 1855. After many starts and stops, its first courthouse was finished in 1864. In the following decades, as the county grew, its needs did also, but the county board would only authorize additions to the courthouse in the 1870s and 1880s. In 1915, the author of a county history described it as "one of the most ill-constructed, ill-looking and inconvenient court houses to be found in the state."
Nicollet County Court Houses and Jails (1916).Nicollet County was formed March 5, 1853. In its first few years, county officials transacted business in private facilities. At the end of the decade, a building which had been built to be the new state capitol was donated to the county, and it served as the court house until 1881, when a new building made of red, "home-made" brick was completed. Pipestone County Court House (1911).From May 23, 1857, when it was formed, to January 1902, Pipestone County did not have a courthouse. This account of where county business was conducted during its first forty-five years and the efforts that culminated in the erection of a courthouse made of "Pipestone red building stone," appeared in a county history published in 1911. William H. C. Folsom: "Minnesota State Prison." (1888).This account of the building of the state penitentiary in Stillwater appeared first in William H. C. Folsom's "Fifty Years in the Northwest," published in 1888. |