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Le Manhattan Municipal Building est un gratte-ciel haut de 177 mètres et comprenant 40 étages, situé dans l'arrondissement de Manhattan, à New York aux États-Unis. Il fut construit entre 1909 et 1912 dans le but de fournir plus de locaux à l'administration de la ville, dont l'importance avait considérablement augmenté à la suite de la consolidation de la ville en 1898 durant laquelle ses cinq arrondissements ont été formés.Sur le toit du bâtiment se trouve une statue de huit mètres de haut, la Civic Fame. Le cabinet d'architectes McKim, Mead and White qui l'a conçu désirait faire du gratte-ciel le premier bâtiment à inclure une station de métro à sa base. Le Manhattan Municipal Building a été un modèle pour de nombreux autres bâtiments administratifs dans d'autres villes des États-Unis, et son architecture fidèle au mouvement des Beaux-Arts a servi comme prototype pour la Terminal Tower de Cleveland, le Fisher Building de Détroit, ou encore le Wrigley Building de Chicago.
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The Surrogate's Courthouse, also known as the Hall of Records, is a Beaux Arts municipal building in lower Manhattan in New York City.Opened in 1907, it is located on the northwest corner of Chambers and Centre Streets, across the street from City Hall Park and from the Municipal Building. It houses the city's Municipal Archives, as well as providing courtrooms for the Surrogate's Court for New York County on the fifth floor.ArchitectureThe well-proportioned seven-story, steel-framed building is faced with granite from Hallowell, Maine, and contains elaborate marble interiors. The three-part Chambers Street facade features a triple-arched main entrance centered along the two-story base, above which is centered a three-story Corinthian colonnade topped by a cornice, a sixth story, another cornice and a mansard roof.It was designed to be fireproof, in order to safely house the city's paper records. The Beaux Arts exterior features fifty-four sculptures by prize-winning artists Philip Martiny and Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, representing both allegorical figures — such as New York in Its Infancy, New York in Revolutionary Times, Philosophy, Law, and the seasons — and eminent figures from the city's past, including Peter Stuyvesant, DeWitt Clinton, David Pietersen De Vries, and mayors Caleb Heathcote, Abram Stevens Hewitt, Philip Hone, Cadwallader David Colden, and James Duane.