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Specifications and Descriptions of the Ohio Intermediate Penitentiary, Mansfield, Ohio

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Title	Specifications and Descriptions of the Ohio Intermediate Penitentiary, Mansfield, Ohio
Subject	Ohio Government Architecture Prisons--Design and construction
Place	Mansfield (Ohio) Richland County (Ohio)
Description	The Specifications and Descriptions of the Ohio Intermediate Penitentiary were produced by the Board of Managers (John M. Pugh, John Q. Smith, Francis M. Marriott and Architect Levi T. Scofield) to solicit bids from contractors. Scofield allegedly modelled the Mansfield Reformatory after sketches of German castles he admired. The attention to detail is evident in the Specifications, which cover each piece of masonry, pipe, and woodwork to be installed. The document comprises 29 pages and measures 8.3" x 13.8" (21 x 35 cm). This item is part of a larger collection of materials placed in the cornerstone of the Mansfield Reformatory to represent Ohio history, public works, business, and current events. Only the items relating to the Reformatory are included in the Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook. 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 Penitentiary Board of Managers and Levi T. Scofield, Architect
Date of Original	1885 circa
Collection	Mansfield Reformatory Cornerstone Collection
Source	Published material Cornerstone Collection Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society
Type	Text

Title	Om77_573035_013
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_573035_013.tif
Image Height	5510
Image Width	3279
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Full Text	1 ) c SPECIFICATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS -OIF THE Oil®'. liteimiiiiti fiiltiitliij. MANSFIELD, RICHLAND COUNTY, ^OHIO. : BOARD OF MANAGERS: JOHN M. PUGH, ColranBiis, OMo. JOHM. Q. SMITH, OaManii, OMo. FBAMCIS M. MARRIOTT, Delaware, QMo. LEiri T. SCOFIELD, Architect, Cleireland, Ohio.

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