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quilled hides, feathered bonnets, and objects of ceremonial significance. Completed in 1907
and in use till 1973, the Beaux Arts
Customs House
is itself part of the attraction; the
facade is adorned with elaborate statuary representing the major continents (carved by
Daniel Chester French) and the world's great commercial centres, while the spectacular
marble-clad Great Hall and Rotunda are beautifully decorated; the sixteen murals covering
the 135ft dome were painted by Reginald Marsh in 1937.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
THE FRAUNCES TAVERN MUSEUM
54 Pearl St at Broad St. Subway #1 to South Ferry; #4, #5 to Bowling Green; R to Whitehall St.
212 425
1778,
www.frauncestavernmuseum.org
.
Daily noon-5pm. $7.
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Having survived extensive modification, several fires, and nineteenth-century use as a hotel,
the three-storey, ochre-and-red-brick
Fraunces Tavern
was almost totally reconstructed in
1907 to mimic its appearance on December 4, 1783, when, after hammering the Brits, a
weeping George Washington took leave of his assembled officers, intent on returning to rur-
al life in Virginia. The
Long Room
where his speech was made has been decked out in the
style of the time, while the adjacent Federal-style
Clinton Room
is smothered in florid
French wallpaper from 1838. The tavern's upper floors contain exhibits tracing the site's
