Chester County Prison, 235 West Market Street, West Chester, Chester County, PA

Significance: This building is a good example of prison architecture of the middle third of the nineteenth century and was built in the best possible manner from the design of Thomas U. Walter.

Survey number: HABS PA-1134

Building/structure dates: 1838 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1871 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1876 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1885 Subsequent Work

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1933 - 1970

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