A semicircular colonnade on a Bronx bluff, the census where the bronze busts stand, a domed library at its heart.
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans is a 630 foot stone colonnade on a bluff above the Harlem River in the Bronx. Stanford White designed it, and it opened in 1901 on the University Heights campus of New York University, wrapped around his Gould Memorial Library. It holds 98 bronze busts of Americans chosen by vote. The campus became Bronx Community College in 1973.
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The open air Corinthian colonnade curving around the library, bust pedestals between the columns, the terraced site over the Harlem River, the green copper dome and portico. Mood: bronze afternoon. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.