Surrogate's Court / Hall of Records
This beaux-arts masterpiece is one of the many New York City landmarks located in Lower Manhattan. The granite and steel edifice took eight years to build and was finally finished in 1907. The “most Parisian” building in New York was originally designed to house the Hall of Records. However, the Surrogate’s Court was one of the building’s first tenants. In 1962, the building was renamed, The Surrogates Court House. The façade of the building is adorned by 54 sculptures designed by renowned sculptors Philip Martiny and Henry K. Bush-Brown. On the Chambers Street side of the building, the sculptures depict seminal figures in New York history, including Peter Stuyvesant. The Centre Street side of the building boasts figures that represent the virtues of philosophy as well as the different seasons.
No influential figure in New York City history receives less respect than Andrew Haswell Green. The “Father of Greater New York” was the greatest urban planner of his time. Unfortunately, his memory has not been properly preserved.
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