Federal Hall on Wall Street in Lower Manhattan was designed by Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis as the U.S. Custom House for the Port of New York. Sculptor John Frazee designed the rotunda and interior and later served as superintendent. The infobox gives 1842, while the text says work began in January 1834 and the building opened in 1842.
The article calls the style Greek Revival. It is Tuckahoe marble with 18 granite front steps. The rotunda is 60 feet (18 m) in diameter.
It served as a Subtreasury from 1862 to 1925 and was undamaged in the 1920 Wall Street bombing. It was designated a memorial in 1939 and opened in 1940, with renovations in 2004 to 2006 and again from 2021. The National Park Service runs it as a memorial and museum. The text conflicts on hours, saying it opens weekdays only in one passage and daily except holidays in another.
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