Surrogate's Courthouse
- Architect
- John Rochester Thomas
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Surrogate's Courthouse, also known as the Hall of Records, stands at the northwest corner of Chambers and Centre Streets facing City Hall Park. Completed in 1907 in the Beaux-Arts style, it was designed by John Rochester Thomas, with Arthur J. Horgan and Vincent J. Slattery overseeing completion of the building.
the building
A fireproof frame for the city's records. The seven-story steel-framed structure has a granite facade and marble interiors; its architects used a fireproof frame specifically so it could safely hold the city's paper records. The basement now houses the New York City Municipal Archives, and the fifth floor holds the New York Surrogate's Court for New York County.
Fifty-four sculptures. The exterior carries 54 sculptures by Philip Martiny and Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, along with three-story colonnades of Corinthian columns running along Chambers and Reade Streets.
the style
John Rochester Thomas designed the building in the Beaux-Arts style, giving a records-storage building the sculptural, colonnaded presence of a civic monument facing City Hall Park.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
John Rochester Thomas created the original plans for the Surrogate's Courthouse, with Arthur J. Horgan and Vincent J. Slattery overseeing its completion in 1907.
significance
The Surrogate's Courthouse is a National Historic Landmark, a New York City Landmark, and is listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and the New York State Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Building
- Municipal Building
- Tweed Courthouse
- 280 Broadway
- City Hall
- United States Courthouse