[1] It is a small building with two-foot-thick sandstone walls, and was built by contractor Elija W. Fannin.

Its door is a lattice of iron bars, which cost $55.65 from the firm of Sengel and Shulte.

The jail has its original dirt floor, but has a newer roof, now covered in corrugated tin.

It is significant as the only remaining artifact of the Skullyville County Government in the Choctaw Nation; a courthouse located to the north of the jail was burned in 1949.

This article about a property in Oklahoma on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.