Finegold Alexander + Associates' project, the former Salem Jail, featured in the Salem Gazette

The original Salem Jail, which was constructed in 1813, will contain 17 two-bedroom, two-bath condos, a restaurant; the jail keeper’s house, possibly by Samuel McIntire, will be converted to three private entry homes; the carriage house will host single unit and exhibit space; and the new building will house eight two-bedroom, two-bath duplex homes. The original complex and the new structure will front onto a landscaped courtyard with view corridors terminating at the original entries to the Jail and Jail Keepers House. The courtyard will provide drop off access for tenant loading and pedestrian circulation, gardens and hardscape of materials consistent with Salem’s history.

Though the jail has undergone a major physical change in recent months, the project’s architect, Jim Alexander of the Boston-based Finegold, Alexander and Associates, has worked to ensure the building will still reflect its historic roots. Two of the jail cells have been preserved and will be used as an exhibition space complete with rusty keys, old bottles and prisoners’ beds. And granite taken from the floors of the cells will be used to pave the condominium’s walkways while cell doors will be utilized in the condo’s hallways as “ornamental reminders of what used to be there.”

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