Delaware County Prison, [Media, Pa.] [graphic] / T.U. Walter, archt.

Format:

Image

Author/Creator:

Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887.

Contributor:

Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884.

Visual Materials Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons--Pennsylvania--Media.

Courthouses--Pennsylvania--Media.

Media (Pa.).

Delaware County Prison (Media, Pa.).

Local Subjects:

Media (Pa.).

Delaware County Prison (Media, Pa.).

Physical Description:

1 drawing : ink & wash on paper ; 33 x 53 cm.

Contained In:

Walter, Thomas Ustick. Architectural drawings collection.

Place of Publication:

1849.

Notes:

Front elevation.

The Historic resources survey, Media Borough, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (1990), p.3, states that in 1848 the Delaware County Commissioners enacted the "Removal Act" to provide for the acquisition of land in what it now Media, in order to moved the county seat to a location more central within the County. Previously the county seat was located to the south in Chester. Walter's diary entries for 1849 state that he met with the Commission in Chester to prepare plans for both a new court house and a prison. The Historic resources survey, p.4, however, states that the original courthouse, built in 1851, was adapted from a plan by Samuel Sloan. A letter from Mark Bartleson to Walter in the Walter Archives, indicates that "the Board" had decided to accept Sloan's plans for the courthouse, and that if it was decided to furnish a prison, that Sloan's also might be accepted. Walter's plans went unbuilt, Sloan's adapted plans appear to have included a jail. A later courthouse by Clarence Brazer still stands on the same site.

Forms part of: Walter, Thomas Ustick. Architectural drawings collection.

Cited in:

Laverty, v.1, p. 233, WTU*048/001