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| NY starting to sell prison superintendent digs |
| By mansfieldnewsjournal.com |
| Published: 04/05/2012 |
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ALBANY, N.Y. (WTW) — The stately brick house once occupied by the superintendent of New York's oldest prison will soon go on the block. With eight bedrooms, six baths, an attached gazebo and a detached barn-size garage, the three-story house affiliated with Auburn Correctional Facility is appraised at $366,500. One of nearly a dozen now-vacant state-owned homes for prison wardens, it will be the first up for sale, with others expected to follow. The Auburn house has extra curb appeal, standing four blocks away from its maximum-security prison, whereas some others have an immediate view of high walls, barred windows and razor wire. "It was always well kept. It was actually kind of neat when you were a youngster seeing correctional facility employees, basically inmates, manicuring the lawn or shoveling snow," Mayor Michael Quill said Wednesday. "They never bothered us, but we were scared to death because they were inmates." "One of the wardens had a daughter who raised horses, and there were horses in the backyard. It's a beautiful street in the city," said Quill, also Auburn's retired fire chief. "As they say, if only the walls could talk, I'm sure they'd tell some stories." Auburn is the oldest existing state correctional facility, receiving its first inmates in 1817, and the scene of New York's first electrocution on Aug. 6, 1890. Warden Charles F. Durston signaled his assistants to throw the switch on William Kemmler, convicted of murdering his common-law wife. He had to be shocked a second time to ensure he was dead. However, Durston didn't go home to the brick house that night. Built in the 1860s, it was owned by the prominent Woodruff and Dulles families before the state took it over in the early 1930s, city officials said. Read More. |
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