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The Battery Maritime Building could be a ferry terminal at ten South Street at the corner of South and Whitehall Streets close to South Ferry at the tip of Manhattan. It’s used for excursion journeys and, since 1956, because the ferry terminal to Governors Island. The Beaux-Arts building was designed from 1906 to 1909 because the Municipal Ferry Pier, and was employed by ferries traveling to thirty ninth Street in borough. It had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Designed by the firm Walker and Morris, it used a spread of discipline metals, together with forged iron, rolled steel, and sealed Zn and copper, and therefore the vaults beneath the construction roof utilize Guastavino tiles. The building was originally created with a good} central way to large higher level waiting area. The higher level had an on the spot affiliation to the elevated depot that served it, the borough Ferry Whitehall Terminal and Lower Manhattan. The terminal had 3 slips, 5, 6, and 7, its lower level serving as a transport loading zone for wagons and motorized vehicles.
A borough Ferry Terminal was created at an equivalent time and appeared as a 2 slip twin. That building was gutted by fireplace in 1991 replaced with AN interim structure that was replaced in 2009. The borough ferry service close up on March fifteen, 1938, and therefore the a hundred and forty,000 sq. Ft. Building was employed by numerous town agencies. In ulterior years, its original multi-colored look was replaced by a paint color meant to emulate the copper coat of the sculpture of Liberty.
In 1956, the U.S. Army began use of the terminal to supply service to a military post, Fort Jay on Governors Island. Substitution smaller steam-power ferries with 2 larger new diesel-electric locomotive boats, the military needed larger ferry slips and docks, moving their ferry operation from AN open ferry slip settled at the Barge workplace, west of the borough Ferry Terminal to the Battery Maritime Building. Once the us Coast Guard took over Governors Island from the military in 1966, they continued to use the terminal to supply vehicle and traveller service to the island for its 3000 residents and 2000 daily commuters till its departure in 1996.
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