The narrow canyon at Broad Street, the Doric steps of Federal Hall, the exchange front with its columns and the giant banner, the crowd at the bell, the works in the canyon.
Wall Street runs along the line of the wooden wall that closed the north side of New Amsterdam in the 1650s. Twenty four brokers signed the Buttonwood Agreement under a tree here on May 17, 1792, the start of the New York Stock Exchange. The Exchange's columned front at 11 Wall Street opened in 1903, designed by George B. Post. Across the street at Federal Hall, George Washington took the oath as first president in 1789.
Source · National Park Service, Federal Hall National Memorial ↗
The stone canyon of Wall and Broad, the Greek Revival Federal Hall with its steps and statue plinth, the six Corinthian columns and pediment of the exchange with a banner between them, the flags, the crowds, the cobbles. Mood: opening bell. 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.