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Title	Intermediate Penitentiary Cornerstone Ceremony Articles
Subject	Ohio Government Prisons--Design and construction
Place	Mansfield (Ohio) Richland County (Ohio)
Description	The ceremony to lay the cornerstone for the new Intermediate Penitentiary in Mansfield, Ohio was held on November 4, 1886. The festivities included a parade through downtown Mansfield, and an estimated 15,000 people were on hand for the ceremony, including former President R.B. Hayes, Senator John Sherman, and Governor J.B. Foraker. The coverage of the event in the morning edition of the Mansfield Daily Herald illustrates the significance of the penitentiary to Mansfield. It lists guests who have arrived for the ceremony, discussed the parade route, and encourages "every citizen to do his share in the way of decoration." Other articles tell the story of the prison and show sketches of the grounds. Also included is an article from the Richland Shield and Banner that reports the program for the cornerstone laying ceremony. This item is part of a larger collection of materials placed in the cornerstone of the Mansfield Reformatory. Items placed in the cornerstone are very diverse, and represent Ohio history, public works, and business, as well as various newspapers from Ohio and the nation. Only the items relating to the Reformatory are included in Ohio Memory. In 1884 the Ohio state legislature approved the creation of a prison to serve as an intermediate step between the Boys' Industrial School in Lancaster and the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. Citizens of Mansfield, led by General Roeliff Brinkerhoff, lobbied for the prison to be located at Mansfield. The city was selected, and it set to work raising $10,000 to purchase 30 acres of land for the site of the prison. The state purchased an additional 150 acres for $20,000, and hired Cleveland architect Levi T. Scofield (1847-1917) to design the prison. When he was hired to design the prison in 1885, Scofield had already designed the asylums for the insane at Athens (1868) and Columbus (1869), as well as Cleveland's Central High School (1878), and private residences such as the R.K. Winslow house (1878) on Euclid Avenue. The Intermediate Penitentiary officially opened on November 17, 1896, when 150 prisoners were transferred from the Ohio Penitentiary. Crowds lined the route from Columbus to Mansfield, and the Richland Shield and Banner ran the headline "Mansfield's Greatest Day." In 1891 the Intermediate Penitentiary was changed to the Ohio State Reformatory. The name was changed to Mansfield Reformatory in 1996 to reflect its significance to the Mansfield community. In recent years, several Hollywood movies have been filmed at the Mansfield Reformatory, including Tango and Cash (1988), Shawshank Redemption (1993), and Air Force One (1996).
Creator	Mansfield Daily Herald Richland Shield and Banner
Date of Original	November 04, 1896; October 30, 1886
Collection	Mansfield Reformatory Cornerstone Collection
Source	Published material Cornerstone Collection
Submitting Institution	Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society
Type	Text

Title	Om77_2444341_044
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om77_2444341_044.tif
Image Height	934
Image Width	6323
File Size	695.241 KB
Full Text	CORNER STONE EDITION. „ V. I ! FII?.ST VOL. 2. NO. 189, TIUBSDAY lOENIM, NOVEMBEE 4, 1886. PEICE, 5 CENTS.

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