Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House Dome - NYC, NY
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N 40° 42.260 W 074° 00.822
18T E 583319 N 4506403
This former Customs House now serves as the National Museum of the American Indian, a Bankruptcy Court and a branch of the National Archives.
Waymark Code: WMJMPB
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 12/05/2013
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This building was constructed in the Beaux-Arts style. It's beautiful rotunda has a natural lit Roman dome enhanced with additional lighting that shines on the murals that encircle the oval shaped room. Entrance is free through the Museum of the American Indian.
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"The Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House is a building in New York City built 1902–1907 by the federal government to house the duty collection operations for the port of New York. It is located near the southern tip of Manhattan, roughly on the same spot as Fort Amsterdam, the original center of the settlement of New Amsterdam. Its address is 1 Bowling Green. The building is now the home of the New York branch of the National Museum of the American Indian as well as the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. As of 2012, it is also the home to the National Archives at New York City.
Architecture
The building was designed by Minnesotan Cass Gilbert, who later designed the Woolworth Building, which is visible from the building's front steps. The selection of Gilbert to design the building was marked with controversy. Until 1893 federal office buildings were designed by government architects under the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury. In 1893 the Tarsney Act permitted the Supervising Architect to hire private architects following a competition. The Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor picked Gilbert who earlier had been his partner at the Gilbert & Taylor architect firm in St. Paul, Minnesota. The scandal never quite blew over and in 1913 the Act was repealed.
100 Years of Grandeur: Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York
Constructed between 1902 and 1907, the building is considered to be a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style, where public transactions were conducted under a noble Roman dome."