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Title
Ohio
Penitentiary
sketch
Subject
Ohio Government
Prisons
Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio)
Time Period
1930s
Place
Columbus (Ohio)
Franklin County (Ohio)
Description
The
Ohio
Penitentiary
, the
large
building
shown
to the
left
of the
train
, was
located
at
254
West
Spring
Street
.
It
was
constructed
in
1934
,
four
years
after
the
original
state
penitentiary
caught
fire
. The
new
penitentiary
was
designed
to
hold
500
inmates
. The
image
shown
here
measures
approximately
7
"
x
4
"
(17.78
x
10.16
cm)
. In
April
1955
, the
Ohio
Penitentiary
housed
5,235
prisoners
, the
most
ever
incarcerated
at the
prison
.
Most
inmates
were
removed
from the
prison
by
1972
,
following
completion
of the
Southern
Ohio
Correctional
Facility
. The
Ohio
Penitentiary
was
officially
closed
in
1984
. The
site
was
abandoned
and the
remaining
buildings
were
demolished
in
1997
to
allot
space
for
Nationwide
Arena
.
Date of Original
ca.
1934
Collection
Ohio
Penitentiary
Collection
Source
Historical
object(s)
or
artifact(s)
;
SC
763
Format
picture
;
objects
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om3440f_5969556_001.tif
Image Height
1682
Image Width
2800
File Size
1500.903 KB
Date created
2009-01-13
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