{"nrhp_refnum":"71000520","name":"New York State Court of Appeals Building","other_names":["State Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Eagle St. between Pine and Columbia Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albany","county":"Albany County","state":"NY","lat":42.652181419000044,"lon":-73.75398018799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-02-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story marble government building with a basement, originally called State Hall, on Eagle Street between Pine and Columbia Streets in Albany, New York. It was completed in 1842 and is now used by the New York State Court of Appeals.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the building's architectural design and construction, in which all three orders of Greek architecture were freely employed. An 1844 account praised it as exceeding almost any building in the country, and it used stone-arched ceilings as an early attempt at fireproofing. It was built to house key state offices and now houses the state's highest court.","narrative":"Completed in 1842 as State Hall, this marble building on Eagle Street in Albany was designed by architect Henry Rector. The State legislature appointed a board in 1834 to buy land near the Capitol for it. Three stories tall over a basement, it has an eleven-bay west front with a projecting portico of six Ionic columns, and its interior is known for a rotunda and dome. Builders used masonry bearing walls, and stone arches instead of wooden framing for the ceilings, an early attempt at fireproofing. The roof and dome were sheathed in copper, and the whole project cost about $350,000. An 1844 city guide described it as a splendid edifice that exceeded nearly any other building in the country. It first housed the Chancellor, Supreme Court judges, the Secretary of State, the Comptroller, the Treasurer, the Attorney General, the Surveyor General and the Canal Board. Today the New York State Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, uses it.","period_of_significance":"1842","architect_builder":"Henry Rector, architect","architectural_style":"Greek architecture, using all three orders (Ionic columns on the west portico)","criteria":[],"status_note":"In good condition, occupied, and in use by the New York State Court of Appeals; described as altered, on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.610856-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/71000520.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000520/43615dd772-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000520/43615dd772-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"UpstateNYer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CourtofAppealsPano.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">UpstateNYer</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CourtofAppealsPano.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"78001837","name":"Lafayette Park Historic","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/lafayette-park-historic-78001837/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316287","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Court_of_Appeals_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707080"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/albany-county/new-york-state-court-of-appeals-building-71000520/"}