{"nrhp_refnum":"87001596","name":"US Courthouse","other_names":["Foley Square"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"40 Foley Sq.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.713734112000054,"lon":-74.00239423399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-09-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 31-story federal courthouse at 40 Foley Square in the Civic Center of Manhattan, New York City, built 1932-36 and designed by Cass Gilbert and completed by Cass Gilbert, Jr.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is one of the largest and most distinctive examples of 1930s Federal architecture built by the U.S. Treasury Department. It was one of Cass Gilbert's last commissions and reflects the restrained Neoclassicism favored for federal buildings. It is also described as one of the earliest skyscrapers built by the federal government and one of the last Neoclassical office buildings erected in New York.","narrative":"Rising 31 stories above Foley Square in Manhattan's Civic Center, this federal courthouse was built between 1932 and 1936 to designs by architect Cass Gilbert. After Gilbert died in 1934, his son, Cass Gilbert, Jr., brought the project to completion. A six-story granite base with a ten-column Corinthian colonnade supports a square tower, topped by a classical temple and a gold-leafed pyramidal roof. The design had to fit 300,000 square feet of space onto a small site, and the setback tower let it harmonize with the neighboring Municipal Building and New York County Courthouse. Inside are 35 courtrooms, a double-height marble lobby, and a 25th-floor library that remains largely intact. The building is considered important as one of the largest Treasury Department projects of the 1930s public buildings program, an example of restrained Neoclassicism late in Gilbert's career, and one of the earliest federally built skyscrapers.","period_of_significance":"1932-36","architect_builder":"Cass Gilbert and Cass Gilbert, Jr.","architectural_style":"Neoclassical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in excellent condition, in government use; many smaller courtrooms and offices have been altered, while the larger courtrooms and the library retain much original fabric.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.997409-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/87001596.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001596/a97e116368-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001596/a97e116368-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marshall-courthouse1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof</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:Marshall-courthouse1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320025","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall_United_States_Courthouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q821601"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/us-courthouse-87001596/"}