[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] These cells are seven feet in depth, seven in height, and forty-two inches wide, which gives but one hundred and seventy-one cubic feet of space for each con-vict." The institution was long officially known as the "Mount Pleasant State Prison." and the substitution of the style of the "Sing Sing Prison " was distasteful to the citizens of the village. In conse-quence various attempts were made to create local sentiment in favor of changing the village name, none of which, however, re-sulted in anything practical. It may be remarked in passing that residents on the outskirts of Sing Sing, in the direction of the highly reputable locality of Scarborough, usually manifest a decided pref-erence to be considered inhabitants of Scarborough and not of Sing Sing. This preference comes mainly, however, from a natural incli-The final construction work was not, however, finished until 1830. 544 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY nation to be identified with the more exclusive community. Any serious proposal to change the name of Sing Sing at the present day would doubtless be voted down overwhelmingly by the people. In the same year that witnessed the completion of the main work on the Sing Sing prison buildings, the Westchester County alms-house was opened— also in the Town of Mount Pleasant, at a place called Knapp's Corners. This interesting event occurred on the 1st of April, 1828. Previously to that time the poor had been cared for by the several townships to which they belonged.