Eastern State Penitentiary
2027 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19130-2610
Hours of Operations: 10 am to 5 pm (last entry: 4 pm) Every day, twelve months a year Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day.
Keywords: Eastern State Penitentiary, Historic Museum, landmark attraction, outdoor, sight seeing, tourism, tourist
Eastern State Penitentiary was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world, but stands today in ruin, a haunting world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers.
Known for its grand architecture and strict discipline, this was the world’s first true “penitentiary,” a prison designed to inspire penitence, or true regret, in the hearts of convicts.
Its vaulted, sky-lit cells once held many of America’s most notorious criminals, including bank robber “Slick Willie” Sutton and Al Capone.
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