The three-story old court building in New York County, known as the Tweed Courthouse , built in the American Victorian style with funds received by William Tweed . The building is located on Chambers Street 54, construction was carried out in 1861-1872 by architects John Kellum and Thomas Little with a break caused by the Tweed and Tammany Hall scandal.
Included in the US National Register of Historic Places .
Construction History
Overflowing the chalice of patience, in which the "Tweed gang" "burned out", was the construction of the New York City Court, financed by the state treasury. The construction of the building began in 1861, but even ten years later, when the abuses of Tweed and his associates were exposed, their trial took place in an unfinished building. In 1877, the construction of the building was resumed and completed in 1881.
In total, the construction of the courthouse cost taxpayers $ 12-13 million (about $ 250 million in 2009 prices [1] ), that is, almost twice as much as the purchase of Alaska in 1867 (then $ 7.2 million). With the already estimated building cost of about one and a half million US dollars, over 10 million were written off by contractors on fake invoices for non-existent work.
In the "honor" of Tweed, the court is still called by its name - the Tweed court .
Notes
- ↑ The Inflation Calculator . Date of treatment March 23, 2010. Archived March 13, 2012.
Links
- The Tweed Courthouse . Date of treatment August 18, 2015.