Nodaway County Jail
| Dates: | 1881-1882, demolished 1984 |
| Location: | East Fourth Street, Maryville, Missouri |
| Architects: | Eckel & Mann, architects, of St. Joseph, Missouri |
| Contractors: | F. C. Allen |
| Rotary Jail: | Haugh, Ketcham & Co., of Indianapolis |
| Cost: | about $19,400 |
This was the first rotary jail designed by the architects Eckel & Mann of St. Joseph, Missouri. The architects also designed the Nodaway County Courthouse in 1881. The jail was attached to the sheriff's residence and the whole building was of St. Joseph pressed brick. Eckel & Mann seem to have been heavily influenced by Hodgson & Brown's Montgomery County Jail, including very similar features such as the gables with fanlight-windows. Eckel & Mann also designed the Pottawattamie County Jail in Council Bluffs, Iowa (roughly 100 miles away), and the DeKalb County Courthouse & Jail in Maysville, Missouri (about 60 miles away).
The Tippecanoe County (Indiana) Historical Association (TCHA) has in its collections a letter from Haugh, Ketcham & Co. advertising the rotary jail. The letter, dated June 3, 1882, states “to fully appreciate our new mode of securing and handling prisoners you ought to see our ‘Rotary’ now in good working order at Crawfordsville, Ind. and another at Paducah, Ky. We will soon have one completed at Maryville, Mo. If you find it inconvenient to visit those places we will send you detailed plans on application.” This suggests that the building was completed during the summer of 1882.
The rotating cylinder was welded in place in 1904 after a prisoner's head was crushed while the cell block was being turned. Local officials considered preserving the building before it was demolished in 1984.