Join Peerless in-person at the Glenview Mansion with Architectural Historian Teresa Lachin as she discusses the architecture of the Montgomery County Detention Center. Built in 1961 “with the most modern concepts,” the Detention Center was subsequently enlarged and modernized during three successive decades. It currently awaits partial demolition for county redevelopment.

The Detention Center is situated historically during mid-century between the outmoded and segregated Montgomery County Courthouse jail in Rockville and the 2003 sustainably-designed Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Clarksburg, Maryland. The Detention Center occupies a key transitional period, documenting modernist transformations in prison design, standards, and practices, the realities of public funding and support, and the experiences of prison life, e.g., chronic overcrowding, mental illness and alcoholism, juvenile detention, and inmate violence, among others.

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