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unusual facts about Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House



Fort George, New York

The site is now a museum and courthouse in Lower Manhattan.

Four continents

The iconography survived as the Four Corners of the World, however, generally in self-consciously classicizing contexts: for instance, in New York, in front of the Beaux-Arts Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House (1907), four sculptural groups by Daniel Chester French symbolize the "Four Corners of the World."

George Gustav Heye Center

That museum closed in 1994 and part of the collection is now housed at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House on Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan.

William F. Creed

William F. Creed (1845 - November 8, 1903) of Malone, New York, was appointed auditor at the Manhattan Custom House by Daniel Magone, the Collector of the Port of New York.

He was appointed auditor at the Manhattan Custom House by Daniel Magone, the Collector of the Port of New York.


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