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| Essential
Architecture- the North
East Eastern State Penitentiary |
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architect |
John Haviland |
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location |
Philadelphia, PA |
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date |
W 1823-29, R 1823-25 |
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style |
Venetian NeoGothic |
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construction |
Stone |
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type |
Government jail |
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| angle view of front, photo 1987, M. Brack. | |
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| aerial view, lithograph, 1855, by convict no. 2954 [S. Cowperthwaite]. | |
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| general plan, 1837, from F.-A. Demetz and G.-A. Blouet. Rapports sur les pénitenciers des Etats-Unis (Paris, 1837). | |
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| elevated view from rotunda toward front, photo, J. Cohen. | |
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| two-story wing, section, 1837, from F.-A. Demetz and G.-A. Blouet. Rapports sur les pénitenciers des Etats-Unis (Paris, 1837). | |
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| corridor,cell photo, J. Randall Cotton. | |
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Special thanks to the Society of Architectural
Historians for some of the images on this page (copyright SAH). |
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