Noble County Sheriff's House and Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Noble County Sheriff's House and Jail, also known as the Old Jail Museum, is a historic jail and residence located in Albion, Indiana. Tolan and Son, Architects of Fort Wayne, Indiana.”
Wikipedia article Noble County Sheriff's House and Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Noble County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. W. Main and Oak Sts., Albion, 46701
When was it listed? December 1982
Category. building
Township. Albion township
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
National Register reference number. 82000026 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

2,078 words

The chapter on Albion Township in Popular History of Noble County Capitals and Greater Albion : Growth, Resources, Surroundings, Facilities and Industrial Opportunities, Interesting Sketches and Reminiscences, with a Business and Professional Guide, published 1908 names Albion. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Piano and Organ Dealer. I make Albion everj' two or three months. Those wishing to buy a fine piano I will give you a square deal as I have treated the following customers: - E. E. Prickett, W. H. Frazure, Mrs. Rauser, Mr. Hamlin, Mrs. W. Marks, Frank Marks, Mrs. Catharine Marks, Mrs. C. C. Kuhn, Mrs. Clara Cook, Mr. J. Cory, Mr. A. C. Green, Bessie B. Barcus, George G. Green, and Robert Hayes. Of Avilla, Ind., Harry Stewart and Mr. Jones.

Passage source: Popular History of Noble County Capitals and Greater Albion : Growth, Resources, Surroundings, Facilities and Industrial Opportunities, Interesting Sketches and Reminiscences, with a Business and Professional Guide, published 1908.

Its proprietor having been in business for over forty years in Albion, being burned out entirely when in the Dry Goods and Grocery business where Schloss Bros, now conduct their store. After serving in the Auditor's office for two terms he again embarked in the mercantile business where he is now located, and is ever ready to demonstrate to the people that he is just as capable of serving them in a business way as he was forty years ago. You are all cordially invited to come in and trade at the old stand and he will treat you square.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Albion Township - 2,078 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Noble County Sheriff's House and Jail: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Taggert Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Noble County

Storms near this property

41 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albion, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	1 hurt, $15,000	A mobile home was removed from its foundation.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$50,000	Numerous trees, tree limbs, power lines and poles were blown down in and around Albion. One tree branch fell onto a moving van in the HIdden Diamonds Park in Albion. The driver was not injured.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$50,000	Numerous trees were blown down starting in the town of Albion and continuing along for 5 milesjust south of highway 8. Several homes sustained minor damage. One mobile home 2 miles southeastof Albion was destroyed. Two farmsteads had their grain bins blown down and another farmstead hada barn destroyed by the high winds.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$30,000	A commercial building on the north side of Courthouse Square sustained significant roof damage.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$20,000	Siding and roof damage at the Noble County highway department.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$10,000	Numerous trees and power lines down.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$10,000	Numerous trees and power lines down.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$1,000	Large tree, estimate 1 to 2 feet in diameter, uprooted in Albion.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	$1,000	A 12 inch diameter was down on SR 9.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	-	Emergency management officials reported trees down in Albion, with one onto a mobile home. A mobile home suffered both extensive roof damage as well as being buckled in on the southeast side of the trailer.
March 2016	Tornado (EF1)	Albion	-	Indications of rotation were found on the northwest flank of a swath of microburst winds. The tornado appears to have touched down near a residence on East County Road 400 North, east of North County Road 150 East. A garage and well house suffered some damage. A barn on the northeast corner of the property suffered damage to the sides and roof, with debris being carried up to a half mile to the northeast. As the tornado crossed the road, power poles were snapped. It quickly moved over open fields until encountering a small property where 2 pine trees were snapped about half way up and the entire roof of a log cabin/cottage was picked up and thrown into a wood area to the northeast of the property. A picnic table and swing were thrown to the northwest into trees and another building. The tornado was likely in the process of lifting at this time with all debris left in the woods. No injuries were reported.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	-	The public reported large tree limb was blown down onto a residence, causing significant damage to a roof.
July 2014	Hail	Albion	-	The public reported dime size hail and a few small tree limbs down on the office Facebook page.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	-	The public reported several trees down in the area, plus some damage to a local car wash.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	-	Emergency management officials received reports of trees and power lines down blocking several roads across the county.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	-	Trees downed all over Albion. One tree fell down on top of a car and trapped an occupant inside.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	-	Numerous reports of wind damage across the county with trees and power lines down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	-	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down near Albion.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	-	Trees down.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	-	Trees and power lines down.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	-	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY.
May 2018	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Albion	-	no account filed
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Albion	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Noble County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Noble County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1981
Albion Courthouse Square Historic District	0.2 miles	2013
Brimfield School No. 2	4.5 miles	2019
Stanley School-District No. 2	5.1 miles	2014
Luckey Hospital	5.5 miles	2013
Gene Stratton Porter Cabin	7.1 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000026 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Noble County	All 15 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.