Snug Harbor Cultural Center Staten Island
— — five Greek Revival temples in a row, looking at the harbour.
Not only on a wall.
“Snug Harbor began in 1833 as a home for aged sailors, paid for by the will of a merchant captain named Robert Richard Randall. The row of five Greek Revival buildings along the front lawn is the most photographed line in Staten Island. The campus is now a cultural center: gardens, the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, the Staten Island Museum, and a Chinese Scholar's Garden built in 1999 by craftsmen from Suzhou. from the studio
Snug Harbor Cultural Center Staten Island, on ceramic.
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Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden occupies 83 acres on the north shore of Staten Island, facing the Kill Van Kull. The institution traces to Sailors' Snug Harbor, a charitable home for retired merchant seamen founded under the 1801 will of Robert Richard Randall and opened on the site in 1833. At its peak in the late nineteenth century it housed roughly a thousand sailors. The five front-row buildings, built between 1831 and 1880, are designated National Historic Landmarks. The site became a cultural center in 1976.
The signature row is five Greek Revival temple-front buildings facing the harbour. Building C, the oldest, was completed in 1833 to designs by Minard Lafever and is one of the earliest fully developed Greek Revival temples in the United States. Buildings B, D, A, and E followed between 1840 and 1880, completing the symmetrical front. The columns are Ionic, the porticoes wide, the stucco originally tinted to imitate cut stone. The buildings have been restored progressively since the campus passed to the City of New York in 1976.
The grounds and most of the gardens are open daily, free of charge, from dawn to dusk. The New York Chinese Scholar's Garden, built in 1999 by artisans from Suzhou as one of the only authentic classical scholar's gardens in the United States, charges a separate admission and keeps shorter hours. The Staten Island Museum and the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art are on the same campus. From Manhattan, the Staten Island Ferry plus the S40 bus reaches the front gate in roughly forty-five minutes.