Castles of "United States" EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY vs EDWARD EVERETT ESTATE

EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY

The Eastern State Penitentiary, also known as ESP, is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at 2027 Fairmount Avenue b...

The Eastern State Penitentiary, also known as ESP, is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at 2027 Fairmount Avenue between Corinthian Avenue and North 22nd Street in the Fairmount section of the city, and was operational from 1829 until 1971. The penitentiary refined the revolutionary system of separate incarceration first pioneered at the Walnut Street Jail which emphasized principles of reform rather than punishment. Notorious criminals such as Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton were held inside its innovative wagon wheel design. James Bruno (Big Joe) and several male relatives were incarcerated here between 1936 and 1948 for the alleged murders in the Kelayres massacre of 1934, before they were paroled. At its completion, the building was the largest and most expensive public structure ever erected in the United States, and quickly became a model for more than 300 prisons worldwide. The prison is currently a U.S. National Historic Landmark. which is open to the public as a museum for tours seven days a week, twelve months a year, 10 am to 5 pm.

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EDWARD EVERETT ESTATE

Southern Vermont College was a private liberal arts college located on the 371-acre (1.50 km2) former Edward Everett Estate (originally called The Orc...

Southern Vermont College was a private liberal arts college located on the 371-acre (1.50 km2) former Edward Everett Estate (originally called The Orchards) near Bennington, Vermont. The college closed on May 31, 2019.[1] Southern Vermont College was founded in 1926 as St. Joseph Business School, an institution offering certificates of proficiency in secretarial accounting, finance, shorthand and typewriting. Eleven students were in the first graduating class. In 1962, it became an accredited junior college, St. Joseph College, awarding associate degrees in business and secretarial science. Twelve years later, in 1974, the school moved to its current location on the Edward Hamlin Everett Estate and became Southern Vermont College, a nonsectarian liberal arts college offering a career-directed curriculum. In the years immediately following this change of location, the college earned bachelor's degree authority from the Vermont Department of Education and full accreditation with the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE). In 2019, NECHE placed the college on "show-cause" status and asked the college to provide additional information about its financial stability to retain its accreditation. The college's only alternative was to lower the admission numbers of its incoming freshman class. This option would lead the school with a financial deficit. The college's president, David Rees Evans, announced the upcoming closure in March 2019. However, the school finished the academic year in May of 2019.

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