michener art museum: Journey from a prison to an art gallery in Bucks County PA - 02/19/20 12:33 PM
Yesterday, I traveled about an hour north of Wilmington Delaware to the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Begun in 1884 as the Bucks County Prison, it was transformed 100 years later into an art gallery.  
Philadelphia architect Addison Hutton had designed a 3-story warden's house and guardhouse using Italianate and Romanesque Revival styles inspired by Quaker ideas of reflection and penitence modeled after Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, built in 1829 and designed by John Haviland.  The Michener didn't seem so creepy until I found out more about the history, expecially in a video posted online by a young scholar.  Yikes--walking over … (4 comments)

 
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