![]() There are three tours offered be prepared to climb stairs!! All money raised goes directly into the restoration of this grand old place. The first floor houses the museum and gift shop. Tours are on the weekends, though they are having special Halloween events in October. However, the public can take pictures of the place from the front, on Reformatory Road. No pictures are allowed of the minimum security prison for obvious reasons. It says in plain English, “No photography allowed from the parking lot.” Yes, they mean you and the guard will come rolling out in a car and ask you to stop in no uncertain terms. The parking lot for the new prison sits beside the right flank of the museum, because part of the new prison may be in the pictures. There is a new federal minimum security prison built on the property behind the museum, on land that used to be part of the Ohio State Reformatory. Today, The Ohio State Reformatory Museum and its buildings & front area are surrounded by a huge mother of all fences. It houses “the world’s tallest, free-standing steel cell block, with 6 tiers, 12 ranges, 600 cells. He created 250,000 square feet of massive stone granite building using a blend of Victorian Gothic, Richardsonian, Romanesque and Queen Anne, a most impressive place. Scofield who designed the prison with beauty and a church-like aura, with the hopes of encouraging and inspiring the incarcerated to experience a spiritual renewal, forsake their harmful life style and repent their wrong-doing. The 1896 Ohio State Reformatory is described as the largest, castle-like structure in Ohio and in the top 5 largest in America. Scarred inmates are now restless spirits showing no remorse. This prison became Hell on earth: a harsh place of mishap & death.
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