Nearby buildings include the International Mercantile Marine Company Building and the Bowling Green Offices Building to the northwest, 26 Broadway to the northeast, 2 Broadway to the east, and One Battery Park Plaza to the south. The Whitehall Street and State Street elevations are 300 feet (90 m) wide the main elevation on Bowling Green is 200 feet (60 m) wide and the rear elevation on Bridge Street is 290 feet (88 m) wide. Custom House occupies a trapezoidal plot bounded by Bowling Green to the north, Whitehall Street to the east, Bridge Street to the south, and State Street to the west. The Custom House was renamed in 1990 to commemorate Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and its first Secretary of the Treasury. The United States Customs Service moved out of the building in 1974, and it remained vacant for over a decade until renovations in the late 1980s. The building opened in 1907, and the murals in the rotunda were added in 1938 during a Works Progress Administration project. Because of various disagreements, the Bowling Green Custom House was not approved until 1899 Gilbert was selected as architect following a competition. The building was proposed in 1889 as a replacement for the previous New York Custom House at 55 Wall Street. The George Gustav Heye Center, a branch of the National Museum of the American Indian, operates on the ground and second stories, while the upper stories contain U.S. The rotunda includes a skylight and ceiling murals by Reginald Marsh. The second-story entrance vestibule leads to a transverse lobby, a rotunda, and offices. The main entrance consists of a grand staircase flanked by Four Continents, a set of four statues by Daniel Chester French. The second through fourth stories contain colonnades with Corinthian columns. The exterior is decorated with nautical motifs and sculptures by twelve artists. The Custom House is a seven-story steel-framed structure with a stone facade and elaborate interiors. It is also a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District, listed on the NRHP. The facade and part of the interior are New York City designated landmarks, and the building is listed on both the New York State Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as a National Historic Landmark. The building contains the George Gustav Heye Center museum, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, and the New York regional offices of the National Archives. Designed by Cass Gilbert in the Beaux-Arts style, it was erected from 1902 to 1907 by the government of the United States as a headquarters for the Port of New York's duty collection operations. Custom House (originally the New York Custom House) is a government building, museum, and former custom house at 1 Bowling Green, near the southern end of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. Wall Street Historic District ( ID07000063)
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