Landmark
Passyunk Avenue
Passyunk Ave, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Former prison site where a notorious nineteenth-century serial killer was hanged, now a neighborhood supermarket.
This guide to Passyunk Avenue in Philadelphia starts under an ordinary supermarket parking lot, once the yard of Moyamensing Prison, a castle-like fortress built in the 1830s by architect Thomas Ustick Walter. On the morning of May 7, 1896, the prison held Herman Webster Mudgett, the man the world knew as H. H. Holmes, convicted not for the Chicago murder castle newspapers described but for poisoning his business partner Benjamin Pitezel for insurance money. Crews tore most of the prison down by the late 1960s, and a supermarket eventually rose on the rubble.
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