BGuthrie Photos: NY -- NYC -- Federal Hall Natl Memorial (26 Wall Street)

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1. FEDH_180824_008.JPG: Bible used by George Washington during his Inauguration at Federal Hall in 1789. Printed in 1767, it has also been used during the Inaugurations of President Harding in 1921, President Eisenhower in 1953, President Jimmy Carter in 1977, and President George Bush Sr. in 1989. The Bible is owned by St. John's Lodge No. 1 and is on loan to the National Park Service.
2. FEDH_180824_017.JPG: First Inaugural Day April 30, 1789 Standing on this stone in the balcony of Federal Hall April 30, 1789 George Washington took the oath as the first president of the United States of America
3. FEDH_180824_070.JPG: Coin Vaults These spacious, heavily fortified vaults were built in 1878 while this building was used as a Sub Treasury. They provided much-needed additional storage space the large volume of coins passing through here every day. The vaults are 47' x 27' x 12' high. They consist of a long corridor with compartments on both sides. The compartments are separated by iron lattices. The floor is supported by solid masonry to withstand the tremendous weight of the coins that were stored here. The walls are lined with layers of iron and steel. As the volume of business transacted in New York increased, so did the flow of money through the Sub Treasury. An idea of the vast quantities of money stored in these vaults can be had from the record of holdings at the close of the business day, June 30, 1897. The vaults held $96,773,661.41 in gold coins, "about" $52,000,000 in silver coins, plus bags of nickels and pennies. Total cash assets were $220,222,138.01! The gold coins were stored in bags worth $5000, which weighed 19 pounds each. The bags of silver coins, each worth $1000, weighed 59 pounds each. At that rate, on June 30, 1897, there weer approximately 19,355 bags of gold and 52,000 bags of silver. The combined weight of the gold and silver coins alone in these vaults was a stupendous 1,718 tons!
4. FEDH_180824_076.JPG: Alexander Hamilton's Summer House
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Wikipedia Description: Federal Hall
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Federal Hall, once located at 26 Wall Street in New York City, was the first capitol of the United States. The building was demolished in the 19th century and replaced by the current structure, the first United States Customs House. The building is now operated by the National Park Service as the Federal Hall National Memorial, a museum that commemorates the earlier structure.

Historic building:

The original structure on the site was built as New York's City Hall in 1700. In 1735, John Peter Zenger, an American newspaper publisher, was arrested for committing libel against the British royal governor and was imprisoned and tried there. His acquittal on the grounds that the material he had printed was true established the freedom of the press as it was later defined in the Bill of Rights.

In October 1765, delegates from nine of the 13 colonies met as the Stamp Act Congress in response to the levying of the Stamp Act by the Parliament of Great Britain. Drawn together for the first time in organized opposition to British policy, the attendees drafted a message to King George III, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons, claiming entitlement to the same rights as the residents of Britain and protesting the colonies' "taxation without representation."

The building was remodelled and enlarged following the American Revolution under the direction of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who was later selected by President Washington to design the capital city on the Potomac. This was the first example of Federal Style architecture in the United States. It was renamed Federal Hall when it became the first Capitol of the United States under the Constitution in 1789, and was the second Capitol of the United States (after the Maryland State House) since independence and union under the Articles of Confederation. The first United States Congress met there on March 4, 1789, to establish the new federal government, and the ...More...
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