Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse
The Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse , originally Foley Square Courthouse , is a courthouse in New York City . It is part of the Civic Center , an administrative and government district in downtown Manhattan , and is located on 40 Center Street in Foley Square . In 2001 the building was named by the United States Congress after Thurgood Marshall , who served here and later became the first African American judge on the US Supreme Court .
The building was built from 1932 according to the plans of the architect Cass Gilbert and, after Gilbert's death in 1934, was completed by his son Cass Gilbert Jr. in 1936. With a height of 179.4 meters, the building was one of the tallest in New York City at the time, it has 32 floors and the top of the building is shaped like a pyramid . This pyramid occupies a total of five floors. It was Cass Gilbert's only building that he had built in the Art Deco style. In 1987 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places .
The building is one of the seats of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York , the federal district court for the southern borough of New York State . It is also the seat of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , a court of appeal that has jurisdiction over the District Courts of the states of New York, Connecticut and Vermont .
In the immediate vicinity are the New York State Supreme Court Building , the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse , the Metropolitan Correctional Center and the Municipal Building .
The Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse has a place in the New York City skyline despite its low height.
Remarks
- ↑ https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/988 , accessed on March 6, 2016.
- ↑ http://focus.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/87001596 , accessed on March 9, 2016.
Web links
- The Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse on the Cass Gilbert Society website , accessed March 7, 2016.
- Photos of the exterior and interior of the building on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit website , accessed March 7, 2016.
Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 49 ″ N , 74 ° 0 ′ 9 ″ W.