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This guide, intended primarily for teachers, presents an overview of the history of City Hall and its role in New York City government today. It displays and explains images that will be encountered on the tour, exhibits historical primary sources, and offers a glossary, list of important dates, and relevant bibliography. In addition, suggestions for class activities either before or after the visit are offered after each major heading. The guide endeavors to enhance the understanding of the history, architecture, art collection, and present-day governance that converge in City Hall.
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Thank You Letters from Student Visitors
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Dear Sheila,
Thank you for sharing so much information with me today. You told me many things I didn’t know before. For instance, I didn’t know that City Hall was originally made in white marble and brown stone, but was refinished in white limestone and pink granite, or that Einstein, President Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr. visited City Hall before. And I certainly didn’t know that half City Hall is legislative and half is executive. City Hall has a lot of interesting history and background! In fact, I hope I can go back to take another tour again…”
(Wang, Aviva. November 17, 2008.)
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Dear
Susan,
Thank you
for being my guide at City Hall. I learned so much from you.
When I learned that the first city hall of
New York City was in
a tavern, I found it very interesting. I liked noticing the pattern
of the rotunda. It was interesting to learn how some architects
competed to build City Hall in 1802. It was fun to notice the
resemblances between the dome in City Hall and the Pantheon in Rome, and the French
influences on the five arched windows. Thank you for being our
guide. Your knowledge of City Hall made this trip all the more interesting and
memorable!”
(Wang, Amanda. November 17, 2008.)
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