Today, it is the home of the San Jacinto County Historical Commission and is next to Old Town Coldspring, a recreation of some of the settlement's oldest buildings.

[2] The new jail was built in 1887 in the county seat of Coldspring, across from the courthouse in the original town square, at the southeastern corner of Loyd and Slade Streets.

[2] In 1915, a fire destroyed the original courthouse and several other buildings in the town square; however, because the jail and the records vault were made of brick, they survived.

Upon its retirement, the San Jacinto County Historical Commission moved its operations there, where they planned to open a museum and a "vanishing crafts teaching institute".

[5] The two-story jail was constructed out of yellow-pink brick and was initially a perfect square, measuring 28 by 28 feet (8.5 by 8.5 m) before a 1911 expansion doubled its size and shifted the building's footprint to a rectangular shape.

All of the windows are sashed and lined with iron bars, and the tops are decorated by projecting brick arches that end in rowlock courses.