Cincinnati Work House and Hospital

Cincinnati Work House and Hospital was a registered historic building in the neighborhood of Camp Washington, Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on March 3, 1980. The jail was built between 1867 and 1869 on 6 acres (2.4 ha) of land.^[2]

The City Work House was located on Colerain Avenue upon the grounds of old Camp Washington, used for the rendezvous of Ohio troops during the Mexican War. The buildings were about 510 feet in length, five stories high and from 54 to 60 feet in width. They were designed by Adams and Hannaford and built under the direction of Robert Allison, chairman of the building committee of the Council in the years 1866 to 1890 at the cost of about half a million dollars. In a 1904 report, it had 606 cells and received between about 2,500 and 3,000 prisoners each year.^[3]

Prisoners were moved out of the building in the late 1980s and the building was demolished in 1991. Today the site is home to another correctional facility called River City Correctional Center, which treats felons for chemical dependency.

The 1989 film Lock Up starring Sylvester Stallone was shot at the City Work House.^[4]

Several artifacts taken from the Work House, including the door of a jail cell and the old prison register, are on display at the Hamilton County Justice Center.^[5]

Notes

External links

• 1875 report on the Work House
• Documentation from the University of Cincinnati

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Alms and Doepke Dry Goods Company Balch House Brittany Apartment Building A. E. Burckhardt House C. H. Burroughs House Calvary Episcopal Church John Church Company Building Cincinnati City Hall Cincinnati Music Hall Cincinnati Observatory Building Cincinnati Work House and Hospital College Hill Town Hall George B. Cox House Cummins School Cuvier Press Club H. W. Derby Building A. M. Detmer House Eden Park Stand Pipe Eden Park Station No. 7 Edgecliff Eighteenth District School Elsinore Arch Episcopal Church of the Resurrection Walter Field House First German Methodist Episcopal Church First Universalist Church Samuel Hannaford House Hooper Building George Hummel House Krippendorf-Dittman Company Lombardy Apartment Building S. C. Mayer House Charles A. Miller House Richard H. Mitchell House Morrison House Northside United Methodist Church Ohio National Guard Armory Our Lady of Mercy High School Palace Hotel Phoenix Club Police Station No. 5 Henry Powell House Probasco Fountain Ransley Apartment Building Charles B. Russell House Sacred Heart Academy St. George Parish and Newman Center William Salway House Saxony Apartment Building George Scott House Spring Grove Cemetery Chapel Capt. Stone House Walnut Hills United Presbyterian Church Westwood United Methodist Church Winton Place Methodist Episcopal Church Mary A. Wolfe House Wyoming Presbyterian Church

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