Lorton Workhouse Arts Center

 NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, arts center, art museum / art gallery, performing arts, prison museum, building/structure that has been renovated/restored/reconstructed

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The Lorton Workhouse Arts Center houses a creative artists colony exhibiting a wide variety of their work. The arts center was formerly the Lorton Reformatory or Correctional Complex, a prison housing inmates from the District of Columbia. The prison was constructed in the early 1900s, opening by 1916. The site continued to house a prison until 2002, and was closed due to overcrowding and the age of the buildings. Fairfax County acquired the site that year and adaptively redeveloped the prison complex into a creative arts center. This complex is listed together with the former Lorton Correctional Complex immediately northeast of here on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as a 511-acre historic district.

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