From Historical Rutland: an illustrated history of Rutland, Vermont, from the granting of the charter in 1761 to 1911 by Rev. F. E. Davison, Rutland, Vt.: P.H. Brehmer, 1911, page 39:
House of Correction
This is a state institution, built in pursuance of an act passed by the General Assembly in 1876. Rutland was selected as its site, by the county's contributing $20,000 toward its erection and thereby gaining its use as a county jail. The building, located on the bank of East Creek, was erected in 1877-78 at a cost of about $60,000, and has had many additions from time to time.
The successful warden at present is D. L. Morgan, whose management of the institution has shown him to be an ideal official. J. W. Cramton, Egbert C. Tuttle, J. N . Woodfin, Newman K. Chaffee have served the State as directors of this penal institution.