The red brick Georgian building on Fifth at 103rd with Hamilton and Clinton in their niches, the marble rotunda with its twin curving stairs, the timeline gallery with its wall of screens changing, school groups following a guide, and the works hung round the rotunda and down the gallery telling the city's own story.
Henry Collins Brown founded the Museum of the City of New York in 1923 to preserve and present the history of the city and its people; it began in Gracie Mansion. Its building at 1220 Fifth Avenue, between 103rd and 104th Streets, was designed by Joseph H. Freedlander in red brick with marble trim, built in 1929 and 1930 and dedicated on January 11, 1932. Statues of Alexander Hamilton and DeWitt Clinton by Adolph Alexander Weinman stand in niches facing Central Park. It became a city landmark on January 24, 1967.
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The Colonial Revival red brick and marble front with its portico and cupola, the entrance rotunda with two sweeping marble staircases, the New York at its core gallery with its wall of screens, the terrace on Fifth. Mood: museum mile, the top of the mile. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.