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Lorton Reformatory Grandstand. Built about 1940. The Reformatory Ballfield Grandstand is a three-sided section of brick bleachers with a wood frame roof over about 60% of the associated bleacher area. The grandstand bleachers are arranged as three segments, connected at 45 degree angles, wrapping around the northwest corner of the ballfield, behind home plate. The bleachers are arranged as a set of brick steps, about 5 courses high, with a rowlock bond brick top edge, and about 24 inches deep. The bleachers are arranged in about 5 steps, with a concrete-capped brick wall at the top and a 4-foot-wide bottom step, with a low brick wall along the edge of the field. At the end of each segment of bleachers, the bricks form a stairway with two risers for each riser of bleachers. The stairways have welded steel pipe railings. Wood 4 x 4 posts rise from the bottom and top edges of the bleacher area to support a roof with an asymmetrical gable form on a wood framework. The brick wall sections that support the posts step out as buttresses or piers centered on the posts. There are braces forming a “Y” shape at the top of each post. The roof completely covers the center section of the grandstand, and about half of the contiguous bleacher areas that extend to the east and south. The roof has a standing seam metal surface, with a shorter slope on the side that slopes toward the field, and the asymmetrical gable ends are finished with vertical wood boards. At the 45 degree angled corners beneath the grand stand roof are two dugout areas. Each has brick side walls supporting a concrete slab roof, with a single, steel-pipe support post on the open side facing into the field. Structure RT-03.
The two Dugouts, built in, 1955, appear between the grandstands. Built-in benches mounted on steel brackets are still in place within the dugouts. The inside surfaces of the dugouts are painted pale blue. The floors of the dugouts are concrete. Structure RT-12.
Behind the Grandstand rises the Lorton Penitentiary Control Center, Built in 1935. Building P-16.
Contributing resource, D.C. Workhouse and Reformatory Historic District. National Register of Historic Places 06000052
Virginia DHR 029-947-0082
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Lorton Reformatory Grandstand. Built about 1940. The Reformatory Ballfield Grandstand is a three-sided section of brick bleachers with a wood frame roof over about 60% of the associated bleacher area. The grandstand bleachers are arranged as three segments, connected at 45 degree angles, wrapping around the northwest corner of the ballfield, behind home plate. The bleachers are arranged as a set of brick steps, about 5 courses high, with a rowlock bond brick top edge, and about 24 inches deep. The bleachers are arranged in about 5 steps, with a concrete-capped brick wall at the top and a 4-foot-wide bottom step, with a low brick wall along the edge of the field. At the end of each segment of bleachers, the bricks form a stairway with two risers for each riser of bleachers. The stairways have welded steel pipe railings. Wood 4 x 4 posts rise from the bottom and top edges of the bleacher area to support a roof with an asymmetrical gable form on a wood framework. The brick wall sections that support the posts step out as buttresses or piers centered on the posts. There are braces forming a “Y” shape at the top of each post. The roof completely covers the center section of the grandstand, and about half of the contiguous bleacher areas that extend to the east and south. The roof has a standing seam metal surface, with a shorter slope on the side that slopes toward the field, and the asymmetrical gable ends are finished with vertical wood boards. At the 45 degree angled corners beneath the grand stand roof are two dugout areas. Each has brick side walls supporting a concrete slab roof, with a single, steel-pipe support post on the open side facing into the field. Structure RT-03.
The two Dugouts, built in, 1955, appear between the grandstands. Built-in benches mounted on steel brackets are still in place within the dugouts. The inside surfaces of the dugouts are painted pale blue. The floors of the dugouts are concrete. Structure RT-12.
Behind the Grandstand rises the Lorton Penitentiary Control Center, Built in 1935. Building P-16.
Contributing resource, D.C. Workhouse and Reformatory Historic District. National Register of Historic Places 06000052
Virginia DHR 029-947-0082