Episode 1688
Surrogate's Courthouse
Sat, 2021-Dec-18 01:09 UTC
Length - 3:02
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The featured article for Saturday, 18 December 2021 is Surrogate's Courthouse.
The Surrogate's Courthouse (also the Hall of Records and 31 Chambers Street) is a historic building at the northwest corner of Chambers and Centre Streets in the Civic Center of Manhattan in New York City. Completed in 1907, it was designed in the Beaux Arts style. John Rochester Thomas created the original plans while Arthur J. Horgan and Vincent J. Slattery oversaw the building's completion. The building faces City Hall Park and the Tweed Courthouse to the south and the Manhattan Municipal Building to the east.
The Surrogate's Courthouse is a seven-story, steel-framed structure with a granite facade and elaborate marble interiors. It was designed to be fireproof to house the city's paper records safely. The exterior is decorated with fifty-four sculpture by Philip Martiny and Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, as well as a three-story Corinthian-style colonnade on Chambers and Reade Streets. The building's basement houses the city's Municipal Archives. The fifth floor contains the Surrogate's Court for New York County, which handles probate and estate proceedings for the New York State Unified Court System.
The Hall of Records building had been planned since the late 19th century to replace an outdated building in City Hall Park; plans for the current building were approved in 1897. Construction took place between 1899 and 1907, having been subject to several delays because of controversies over funding, sculptures, and Horgan and Slattery's involvement after Thomas's death in 1901. Renamed the Surrogate's Courthouse in 1962, the building has undergone few alterations over the years. The Surrogate's Courthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark, and its facade and interior are both New York City designated landmarks.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:09 UTC on Saturday, 18 December 2021.
For the full current version of the article, see Surrogate's Courthouse on Wikipedia.
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