Frost Calaboose

Danny Gillespie is the City Secretary for the city of Frost in Navarro County.  He visited the calaboose and took some photos for me.  According to his research the building that was built later and attached to the calaboose was the old City Hall.  The calaboose can be entered through the metal door in front or from inside City Hall.  I don’t know if there was always two entrances.  There is no page for Navarro County on the website and I don’t know how to make one.  Therefore, a few photos are posted here.

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This photo shows the original calaboose and part of City Hall behind it.  The old roof was removed so that the roofline for the two joined structures would be the same.

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This photo shows the side with one of the windows.  The window on the building behind the calaboose also has bars.  I don’t know if there was a cell inside that building.

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This photo sows the inside of the calaboose and the door that allows entry into City Hall.  The bars on the doors are our old friend “strap iron.”  The lines in the roof testify to the fact that the original roof was poured concrete.  There is something unusual about the unevenness of the ceiling.  To me this suggests that there may have been two cells but the wall separating them has been removed.

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