Bowling Green, New York Photos

Bowling Green was once literally a lawn used for the game of bowls and its fence & park date back to 1771. This triangular square's most photographed feature is a bull representing the bull markets of nearby Wall Street. The United States Custom House (1899-1907) by Cass Gilbert graces the southern base of Bowling Green. The classical buildings on the Broadway side of the Green were once headquarters of major shipping lines: United States, White Star, & Cunard Lines. The Standard Oil Building faces them completing the urban space adjacent to Battery Park.

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Looking up Broadway from the Battery.

Looking up Broadway to Trinity Building (1907) (green dome) & Woolworth Building (spire).

United States Custom House over Bowling Green park. United States Custom House, New York

United States Custom House (1899-1907) (on Bowling Green) now Alexander Hamilton Custom House & National Museum of American Indian. Style: Beaux Art. Architect: Cass Gilbert. On National Register.

United States Custom House with series of Four Continents sculptures by Daniel Chester French.

2 Broadway (1959) (32 floors) over United States Custom House.
Architect: Emery Roth & Sons.

Charging Bull sculpture (1989) by Arthuro Di Modica on Bowling Green.

Charging Bull sculpture (1989) by Arthuro Di Modica on Bowling Green is photographed by most tourists.

Bowling Green Fence & Park (1771) (Broadway & Beaver St.).
On National Register.

Standard Oil Building (1922) (26 Broadway) (15 floors + tower).
Style: Renaissance. Architect: Carrere & Hastings + Shreve, Lamb & Blake.

Standard Oil Building commissioned in 1886, extended upward 1896 & then curved facade & tower added 1922.

Standard Oil Building by Carrere & Hastings with Chimney in form of Kerosene Lamp, the product John D. Rockefeller started producing.

Terra Cotta Bowling Green Subway entrance & 26 Broadway.

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International Mercantile Marine Company Building (aka United States Lines, originally Washington Building) (1884 & 1921) (1 Broadway).
Style: Classical Revival. Architect: Walter B. Chambers. On National Register.

United States Lines (now One Broadway).

Ports of call plaques on facade of United States Lines (now One Broadway) building.

Eagle, Mercury & Neptune carvings over portal of United States Lines (now One Broadway) building.

Bowling Green Building (1898) (5-11 Broadway). Style: Hellenic Revival. Architect: W.G. Audsley.

Columns of Bowling Green Building housed White Star Lines where crowds sought news of Titanic in 1912.

Entrance of Bowling Green Building.

Cunard Building (1921) (25 Broadway).
Style: Renaissance. Architect: Benjamin Wistar Morris + Carrere & Hastings.

Stonework details of Cunard Building.

Cunard Building interior ceiling by Carl Jennewein (carving) & Ezra Winter (painting).

Looking up Whitehall St. past 3 New York Plaza & Broad Financial Center.

Broad Financial Center (1986) (33 Whitehall St.) (27 floors) by Fox & Fowle Architects + 3 New York Plaza (1986) (39 Whitehall St.) (18 floors) by Stephen Decatur Hatch.

IRT Subway Line Battery Park Control House (1904-5) entrance building. Architect: Heins & La Farge.

Battery Park / Bowling Green IRT Subway Entrance.

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