Annual report of the Board of Public Works to the Common Council of the City of Chicago . tl 72 NINTH ANNUAL EEPORT OF and substantial structures, with no costlj arcliitectural embellish-ment, except so iar as it appeared necessary to give expressionof purpose. The Wardens house, forty-eight by sixty feet, two storieshigh, occupies the centre of the east front. The two cell houses, each fifty by two hundred and twenty-four feet, extend north and south, forming wings, and areattached to the rear of the Wardens house. The prison formales, in the south wing, contains two hundred and eighty-eightc
Annual report of the Board of Public Works to the Common Council of the City of Chicago . tl 72 NINTH ANNUAL EEPORT OF and substantial structures, with no costlj arcliitectural embellish-ment, except so iar as it appeared necessary to give expressionof purpose. The Wardens house, forty-eight by sixty feet, two storieshigh, occupies the centre of the east front. The two cell houses, each fifty by two hundred and twenty-four feet, extend north and south, forming wings, and areattached to the rear of the Wardens house. The prison formales, in the south wing, contains two hundred and eighty-eightcells. That for females, in the north wing, contains two hundredcells. The cells are of the most improved and substantial char-acter, and are constructed entirely of cut-stone work, with nojoints or seams, excepting at the angles. The cells are arrangedin stories, four stories high, with galleries and stairways of cell is ventilated by a separate flue, and has a door of irongratings, furnished with N^ewells prison-door locks. Each rangeof doors is furnished with a sliding bar
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