Manhattan: 5th Avenue - 80th Street

ONE OF THE FRONTS OF THE AMERICAN WING OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART IN NEW YORK
This facade is a replacement,stone by stone, of the front of the old United States Assay Building on Wall Street, recently torn down, and originally built in 1824

The south facade of the American Wing. Formerly the facade of the U.S. Branch Bank, and later of the U.S. Assay Office, at 15 Wall Street. It was built about 182-24 by a well-known New York architect, W.S. Thompson. Torn down in 1914, the stones numbered and stored, and re-erected at the museum.
February 1925