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The Juab County Jail is located in Nephi, Utah, and it is one of the oldest and best-preserved jails from the early 20th Century. The state of Utah was still a wild frontier at the time this jail was built in 1892, and it served as the main jail in the county for over 80 years. The building still stands to this day, and it can be found on the National Registry of Historic Places.

The Juab County Jail is a brick building that was build over the course of a couple months in 1892 when the county realized that it needed to expand its Sheriff's office. The Sheriff's office ran the jail until it was closed and replaced in the mid 1970s, and it was left as a monument to the history of the state. The location is still there as a reminder of the long history of the area, and it has an historical marker outside that anyone can read as they pass by.

The property is privately owned at this time, but it is a space that someone could tour if they wanted to arrange a tour with the owner.

The building was created with a traditional brick design and sandstone foundation that was later bolstered with concrete. It is noted as a schoolhouse type building in its official application to be named an historic location, and the late Victorian style of the building uses bay windows around the outside of the first floor. These windows offer some natural lighting for the lower level where the county Sheriff would have operated, and there is only one door on the front of the building that allowed for a high level of security.

The second floor has four cells that are still intact, and they are constructed with the traditional iron bars of the period. The simple key system was never changed, and the cells are lined with brick just as the exterior of the building is.

There is a flat roof that also houses a heating plant which was installed to serve both the jail and the old courthouse which is no longer standing. There are remnants of an old causeway that led from the jail to the courthouse, and the heating plant every has some parts left over that show it once was able to reach over to the courthouse.

The first jail was actually built in 1883, and a jail and building company was called in to make a much better structure. They installed the cells, and they officially christened the building in 1892. The jail was used until it was closed in 1974 when a much larger facility was built on county land, and it is still one of the best examples of the old period of jail building.