New York City Hall

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Description

Aaron Burr promised Latrobe he would win the competition to design NY City Hall in 1802. But, Joseph Francois Magnin & John McComb Jr won the $350 prize, becoming the oldest continuously occupied City Hall in America since completed in 1811.

French Renaissance plus Federal equals this massive administrative and legislative structure. It houses the City Council and the Mayor's Office, with New York's first and most beautiful (now former) subway station buried right beneath it.

Constructed, 1811

Renovation, 1860

Renovation, 1898

Renovation, 1903

Renovation, 1907

Renovation, 1915

Renovation, 1917

Renovation, 1956

Renovation, 1998

Designations

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New York City Exterior Landmark in Feb 1, 1966

National Historic Landmark in Dec 19, 1960

National Register of Historic Places in Oct 15, 1966

Factoids

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Jan 1, 1990 -David Dinkins sworn in as 1st African American mayor of New York City.

1760-The city enacts it’s first laws requiring the examination and licensing of medical practitioners. ^[1]

Aug, 1866 -17th president Andrew Johnson, visited City Hall.

Related People & Organizations

Philip Hone,Philip Hone, who served as Mayor of New York City from 1826 to 1827, acted as a key cultural ambassador by commissioning artwork to decorate City Hall.

Related Sites

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Justice

Federal Hall National Memorial

City Hall Park

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Walking the Streets of New Amsterdam Compilation

Timeline

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1766

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1811+ 1

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Images

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Images

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West over City Hall and Home Insurance Building, across the Hudson to New Jersey, from World Building, 1902

City Hall as viewed from Park Row

City Hall front facade facing City Hall Park

As viewed from Park Row

The Justice statue above the Rotunda

City Hall Rotunda ceiling

New York City Hall Plaque, located on Broadway

New York City Hall plaque, located on the City Hall Park Path

1917 - Renovation

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1917 - Renovation - Images

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Stairway and rotunda, 1938

N.Y. City Hall Rotunda, 1939

1907 - Renovation

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1907 - Renovation - Images

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City Hall and vicinity, 1909

Manhattan Cable cars station which ran across the Brooklyn bridge, 1911.

No perimeter around the building in 1913

1903 - Renovation

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1903 - Renovation - Images

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City Hall and Broadway buildings, 1903

City Hall, County Court House and City Hall Park; City Hall, City Hall Park and Broadway, 1905

1898 - Renovation

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1898 - Renovation - Images

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The Governor's Room, New York City Hall, as restored in 1895

Celebration at the City Hall Park, Park Row & Frankfort Street,1901

1898 - Renovation - Drawings and documents

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The City Hall, New York City, 1900

1860 - Renovation

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1860 - Renovation - Images

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Rotunda, New York City Hall, 1860

1860 - Renovation - Drawings and documents

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Gen. Butler's speech for Horace Greeley in NewYork, 1866, City Hall Square

Chamber of the Board of Councilmen, 1868

City Hall, Wall Street, Plan of City Hall, 1887

1811 - Constructed

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1811 - Constructed - Drawings and documents

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1858 - View of City Hall, Sept. 1st 1858

1831

1802 - City Hall front elevation

ASSOCIATED SITES

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Events and Stories

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Flour riot of 1837

Social Protest

Panic of 1837

Disaster, Finance

The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978

Disaster

The New Deal

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Governance

Wood-Frame Construction Ban

Disaster, Zoning, Preservation

New York City blackout of 1977

Infrastructure, Disaster

Dr Martin Luther King Receives New York City's Medallion of Honor

Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Wagner Jr.

Celebration, Civil Rights

1st use of Exterior Advertising and Billboards

Commerce

The 1918 Influenza Epidemic

Health and Safety

Tea Bag Accidentally Invented

Invention

1st Lying In Hospital established

Health and Safety

Liberty Pole

Sons of Liberty

Civil Rights

NYC appointed a rat czar

Eric Leroy Adams

Governance, Health and Safety

Municipal Art Commission

Governance

The Fifth of July

Celebration

John Peter Zenger's Sedition Trial

John Peter Zenger, James De Lancey

Politics

Gotham City

Culture

Department of Buildings established

Governance

Hard Hat Riot

Civil Rights, Social Protest

Black and White Cookie

Food

Ticker Tape Parade for John Glenn

John Glenn

Celebration

1st bicycles in the US

Invention

Yellow Fever Epidemic in New York

Disaster

Last Oyster eaten in NYC

Commerce, Preservation, What Happened Here, Food

Mayors Office of Film Theater and Broadcasting created

Culture, Film

New York named New Orange

Military/Conflict, Governance

Fire Ordinance enacted in New Amsterdam

Disaster, Governance, Health and Safety, Infrastructure

First Reading of the Declaration of Independence

Governance

1st Street Cleaning Law in New Amsterdam

Governance

New Gaol, turned Debtor's Prison, turned Provost Prison, turned Hall of Records

Incarceration

The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894

Governance

1st Labor Day Parade

Celebration

'Get Sheds Down' plan passed in NYC

Eric Leroy Adams

Governance

The Seal of the City of New York

Governance

Stamp Act Riots

Civil Rights

Subway Nudity Hoax

Culture, Publication, What Happened Here

Gun control Sullivan Law takes effect

Crime

The Artichoke : The fruits of organized crime

Food

Plan for New York City 1969

Governance, Urban Design, Planning Project

1st African American appointed in NYC

Governance

The New York Bagel

Food

NYC Police riot of 1857

Military/Conflict, Social Protest, Governance

1st school nurse

Health and Safety

The War on Graffiti

Governance, Culture

Department of Street Cleaning

Governance

Abraham Lincoln Lying in State in City Hall's Rotunda

Governance

NYC Transit Workers Strike

Social Protest

Blackout of November 1965

Infrastructure

Architecture

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Tutoring Center

IN STUDIO

Interiors

Heckscher Foundation for Children

IN STUDIO

Residential

The NY row house stoop

Residential

Central Park West Penthouse

IN STUDIO

Residential

Bridewell Prison

Theophilus Hardenbrook

Justice, Incarceration

Carriage House

IN STUDIO

Residential

Governor's Room at City Hall

John McComb Jr., Joseph-Francois Mangin

Museum

Public Art

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George Washington at City Hall

Jean Antoine Houdon

Sculpture

Thomas Jefferson Statue

Pierre-Jean David D'Angers, Uriah P. Levy, New York Historical

Sculpture

Birds in Flight-Moon View

Phyllis 'Wopo' Anna Holup, MTA Arts & Design

Relief

William Pitt Statue

Joseph Wilton, New York General Assembly

Sculpture

Justice

John Dixey

Sculpture

Infrastructure

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Steve Flanders Square

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