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Dubuque County Jail

Dubuque, IA

The Egyptian Revival former county jail is one of Dubuque's most unusual nineteenth-century civic buildings, with heavy stone walls and fortress-like details. Interior access is not reliably public, so OddWay should treat it as an exterior architectural stop unless an authorized event is offered.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: cityofdubuque.org

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