Jefferson Market Prison

Coordinates: 40°44′04″N 73°59′59″W / 40.7345°N 73.9996°W

The original jailhouse at this site was built alongside a police court and volunteer firehouse in the 1833 Jefferson food market, named for the former president. The jail was torn down in 1873.[1]

In 1877, the prominent Jefferson Market Prison opened at 10 Greenwich Avenue, together with the adjacent Third Judicial District Courthouse. Frederick Clarke Withers designed these twin buildings in an ornate American Gothic style.[2] The landmark courthouse survived Jefferson Market's 1927 demolition and today serves as a New York Public Library branch.

A third building—the only Art Deco jail ever built—operated here from 1931 to 1971 as New York Women's House of Detention.[3]

Jefferson Market Library was built in 1877 as a courthouse twinned with the now demolished Jefferson Market Prison.

The site is now a small park known as Jefferson Market Garden.

References

  1. ↑ "The Demolition of the Jefferson Market Police Court". The New York Times. January 25, 1875.
  2. ↑ "The New Jefferson Market Prison". The New York Times. April 4, 1878.
  3. ↑ Neumaier, Joe (April 23, 2005). "Duchovny: Film is both personal and universal". The Seattle Times. Retrieved December 6, 2013.

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