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Federal Hall is a memorial and historic site at 26 Wall Street in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City.The current Greek Revival–style building, completed in 1842 as the Custom House, is owned by the United States federal government and operated by the National Park Service as a national memorial called the Federal Hall National Memorial.
General George Washington in Prayer at Valley Forge (1904), by James E. Kelly, Federal Hall National Memorial, Manhattan George Washington Bridge (1930), over Hudson River Copy (ca. 1930) after George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1791), City College of New York , Manhattan
The statue was unveiled in 1883 to commemorate the first inauguration of George Washington.In 1789, Federal Hall, which served as the capitol building of the United States, stood on the Lower Manhattan site, and Washington took the oath of office on the balcony of that building, approximately where the statue now stands.
[3] [4] That building was demolished for construction of a new Custom House at the same location, completed in 1842, which was designed by John Frazee, and is today designated Federal Hall National Memorial. [5] From 1862 it was in the Merchant's Exchange Building at 55 Wall Street.
The Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building is a U.S. governmental office building at 26 Federal Plaza on Foley Square in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. At 41 stories, it is the tallest federal building in the United States.
On January 14, 2004, the final design for the World Trade Center site memorial was unveiled at a press conference in Federal Hall National Memorial. [9] As mandated by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC), the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation owns, operates and finances the Reflecting Absence Memorial and the Museum.
Cover of The New York Times reporting on the Wall Street bombing.. The Wall Street bombing was an act of terrorism on Wall Street at 12:01 pm on Thursday, September 16, 1920. . The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another 10 later died of wounds that they sustained in the bla
May 15, 1975 (Manhattan: New York: Bell Labs work here included experimental phonograph record, vacuum tubes, talking movies (1923), black and white and color TV, radar, and early commercial remote broadcasts.