New York City Hall

This is the central part of a larger photograph copyrighted 1900 by Detroit Publishing Company. Original title: City Hall and Park, New York. A colorized version is shown on the right and enlargement of the clock tower in below. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

View from Park Row side. This historic City Hall building was completed in 1812. The original copper roof of City Hall was replaced in 1853, but it was partly destroyed by fire in 1858. Today the City Hall is a living museum, designated a national historic landmark in 1960.

More: enlargement of the buildings on west side of Broadway, from Murray Street to Warren Street, to the left, outside this image.

Enlargement of the old domed clock tower. It was rebuilt in 1917. The old National Shoe & Leather Bank building (behind City Hall) was completed in 1893. On the right stands the Broadway-Chambers Building, completed in 1900.