Once a courthouse adjoining the Women's House of Detention, the Jefferson Market Library was originally a courthouse, built in 1874. It has a long, haunted history. Now you can enter this gorgeous structure, inspired by German castles and Venetian Gothic buildings, and read. Be sure to descend the spiral staircase to the periodicals room in the basement. If you stand outside on Sixth Avenue, you can easily imagine the unfortunate women, jailed for prostitution and other crimes, from their upper story cells, raining insults on confused pedestrians below.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
The Jefferson Market Libary
Once a courthouse adjoining the Women's House of Detention, the Jefferson Market Library was originally a courthouse, built in 1874. It has a long, haunted history. Now you can enter this gorgeous structure, inspired by German castles and Venetian Gothic buildings, and read. Be sure to descend the spiral staircase to the periodicals room in the basement. If you stand outside on Sixth Avenue, you can easily imagine the unfortunate women, jailed for prostitution and other crimes, from their upper story cells, raining insults on confused pedestrians below.
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