House of Reformation for Juvenile and Female Offenders Against the...
A New Hampshire Prison "For Juvenile and Female Offenders" [Prisons]. [New Hampshire]. "House of Reformation for Juvenile and Female Offenders Against the Laws" To be Erected for the State of New Hampshire at Manchester. Under the Direction of Hon. Frederick Smith, Hon. Matthew Harvey and Hon. Hosea Eaton, Commissioners. William R. Lincoln and Gridley J.F. Bryant, Designers and Architect. Disbound from First Annual Report of the Commissioner for Locating and Building House of Reformation for Juvenile and Female Offenders Against the Laws. Concord: Amos Hadley, State Printer, 1856. Lithograph signed Kramer & Co. Removed 16-3/4" x 21-3/4" (42.5 x 55.25 cm) sepia lithograph, image size 11-1/2" x 19" (29.2 x 48.25 cm). Moderate toning, faint offsetting, horizontal and vertical fold lines, a few tiny clean tears along fold lines with minor loss to image. $450. * An impressive mid-19th-century architectural rendering showing the proposed reformatory situated along the banks of the Merrimack River in Manchester, New Hampshire. Authorized by the state legislature in 1855, construction began on the site the following year. The structure was designed by the prominent Boston architect Gridley J.F. Bryant (1816-1899), a pioneer in Victorian institutional architecture who designed numerous municipal buildings, custom houses, and prisons throughout New England (and who would later renovate the New Hampshire State House in 1866). Bryant worked here alongside co-designer William R. Lincoln. Intended as a progressive, state-of-the-art facility for the rehabilitation of juvenile and female offenders, the House of Reformation officially opened in 1858. The grand building depicted here was short-lived, however; it was severely damaged and largely destroyed by a catastrophic fire in 1865. The site was subsequently rebuilt and went on to become the long-running State Industrial School (later the Youth Development Center). OCLC locates 3 individually catalogued copies of this lithograph (Library Company of Philadelphia, Boston Athenaeum, American Antiquarian Society). We located additional copies at Dartmouth and the New Hampshire Historical Society. Reed, Building Victorian Boston: The Architecture of Gridley J.F. Bryant 186.
Price: $450.00
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