Eastern State Penitentiary
Philadelphia, United States
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Eastern State Penitentiary is a former prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, located in the Fairmount section of the city and now operated as a museum. Built beginning in 1829 in the Gothic Revival style to designs by John Haviland, it operated until 1971. Its wagon wheel design refined the separate system of incarceration first pioneered at the Walnut Street Jail, and at completion it was the largest and most expensive public structure in the United States. It became a model for more than 300 prisons worldwide and is a National Historic Landmark.
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- Built
- Type
- prison museum, pénitencier d’État
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place, National Historic Landmark
- Place
- Philadelphia, United States
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