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222 Courthouse Court, Towson, MD 21204, USA
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N39° 23' 52" W76° 36' 28.5"
(39.397777777778, -76.607916666667)
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Baltimore County Jail is a historic jail located at Towson in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It was built in 1855 and is a two-story Italianate style stone building, measuring 52 feet wide and 62 feet deep. It consists of a five-bay-wide warden’s house with a central three story entry tower. In the rear is a cell block with three levels of jail cells and covered by a gable roof. The warden's house and tower features a low pyramidal hipped roof and 30-inch-thick (760 mm) walls. Attached to the warden's house is a stone garage built in 1940. It was used as a correctional facility until
2006.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 2009.
