HIAWATHA — A former jailhouse in northeast Kansas has sold at auction for $10,000 to a developer who hopes to turn it into a hotel.
The St. Joseph News-Press reports (http://j.mp/2aDbjwR ) the former Brown County jailhouse in Hiawatha was auctioned off Friday. Michael Wuttke, of Orangevale, California, bought the building and its contents for $10,000.
No one else bid on the property.
Wuttke also owns a former nursing home in the ...