Walking Tour: Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House and National Museum of the American Indian

Designed by Cass Gilbert, architect of the Woolworth Building, and completed in 1907, the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House is a National Historic Landmark. Its high Beaux Arts style features propagandistic exterior sculptures by Daniel Chester French. The interior splendor includes an elliptical rotunda with a 140-ton dome skylight designed by Valencia-born engineer Raphael Gustavino and murals by New York painter Reginald Marsh. The National Museum of the American Indian–New York, the George Gustav Heye Center, is located within the magnificent building and houses permanent and temporary exhibitions dedicated to the Native people of the Americas.