Castle Clinton in Manhattan was designed by John McComb Jr., with Jonathan Williams as consulting engineer, and the infobox also credits the U.S. War Department. The article names no client, but it was a federal military project. The infobox gives 1808. The text says construction began in 1808 and the fort was completed in 1811, with modifications through the 1820s. It was garrisoned in 1812 and ceded to New York City by Congress in 1822.
The article names no style and describes a roughly circular, one-story fort. It is red sandstone from New Jersey, with a radius of about 92 feet (28 m), walls about 8 feet thick and a site of about one acre.
It was an entertainment venue in 1824, an immigrant depot from 1855 to 1890 and the New York Aquarium from 1896 to 1941. The National Park Service has owned it since 1950. Admission is free, and the article gives no hours.
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