Excerpt from Treat's Illustrated New York, Brooklyn, and Surroundings Courthouse - This structure, front ing on Chambers-street, was begun in 1863 and is not completed. It is 250 feet long, 150 wide, and the crown of the dome is to be 210 feet above the pave ment. The walls are of Massachusetts white marble. Single pieces of iron used in its construction weigh over 25 tons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.