The Columbia County Jail is a historic structure at Calhoun and Jefferson Streets in Magnolia, Arkansas. The brick two story structure in Columbia County was designed by

Thompson & Harding Charles L. Thompson and associates is an architectural group that was established in Arkansas since the late 1800s. It is now known as Cromwell Architects Engineers, Inc.. This article is about Thompson and associates' work as part of one ...

and was built c. 1920, and is an excellent local example of Italian Renaissance architecture. It is faced in cream-colored brick, and has a terracotta hipped roof. It has an entrance portico with round arches supported by slender columns and gargoyles at its corners. The building was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for its architecture; it was still used as a jail at that time.

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Jails on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Government buildings completed in 1920 National Register of Historic Places in Columbia County, Arkansas Italian Renaissance Revival architecture in the United States 1920 establishments in Arkansas Magnolia, Arkansas {{ColumbiaCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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