NYC - New York County Supreme Courthouse

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The Supreme Courthouse (New York County Court) overlooks Foley Square and is located between Worth and Pearl Streets. The building houses the Supreme Court and the Office of the County Clerk. In 1927 the New York County Court moved from the old Tweed Courthouse to this spacious granite-faced building. The Boston architect Guy Lowell won a competition in 1913 with a design for a round building. Construction was delayed and the design altered to a hexagonal form; work finally began in 1919. The Roman classical style chosen was popular for courthouse architecture in the first decades of the 20th century. The courthouse was the first major New York commission for the well-known Boston architect Guy Lowell (1870-1927). He designed the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the building plan for Philips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. He was also a landscape architect and designed formal gardens for Andrew Carnegie and J. Pierpont Morgan in New York. The courthouse rises above a 100-foot wide flight of steps to an imposing colonnade of 10 granite fluted Corinthian columns. Above the columns are engraved words of George Washington: "The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government." Above this is a triangular pediment, 140-feet long, with 14 classical figures in high relief. Along the huge roofline are three statues representing Law, Truth and Equity. All of the pediment sculpture was carved by Frederick Warren Allen.

Foley Square is named for Thomas F. “Big Tom” Foley (1852-1925), a prominent Democratic Party leader from the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Foley left school at the age of thirteen to support his widowed mother, working for a period as a blacksmith’s helper. In 1877 he began his active connection with politics as a Tammany election district captain and rose to be First Assembly District leader.

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	Ken Lund says: Fantastic photo. And...one of the first things they tell 1Ls in law school, no matter how many thousands of miles away from New York we go to school...is that the Supreme Court is actually the trial court in New York. Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )
	ZhenPanda says: incredible photo. Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )
	fusionpanda says: Very imposing! Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )
	wallyg says: featured on the gothamist Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
	jpwauthier says: Thanks for the picture, we used it on CentPapiers : La Cour Suprême américaine confirme le droit individuel de posséder une arme à feu Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

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