| City/Town: • Buhler |
| Location Class: • Jail |
| Built: • 1914 | Abandoned: • 1950s |
| Status: • Abandoned |
| Photojournalist: • Valerie Belknap |
On November 27, 1913, The Buhler Herald reported that at a city council meeting on November 21st a decision had been made to start work on a city jail for Buhler. The jail that was then completed in March of the following year was 12×14 feet with two cells and a corridor inside. Each cell was 5×7 feet sitting on a concrete floor with a flat concrete roof over them.
Bids for the steelwork were prepared by the two blacksmiths of Buhler and a machine shop in Hutchinson. Mayor Bartel commenced work as soon as possible after the decision was made at the meeting and a section of land on township property was picked for the jail.
The jail was then abandoned in the late fifties after being used mostly as a drunk tank or holding cell while criminals waited to be transported to the Reno County jail in Hutchinson. The building was then used in the 1960s-70s for the town’s Christmas decorations.
Gallery Below of Buhler Jail
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