How Much Did Tweed Courthouse Cost

The building is estimated to have cost between $11 million and $15 million to complete, which was sixty times the original estimate of $250,000; $9 million of that cost was thought to be in graft.

How much did the county courthouse built by Tammany Hall cost?

The total cost of construction was estimated in 1914 at $11–12 million (equivalent to $257–281 million in 2019).

When was the Tweed Courthouse built?

The Old New York County Courthouse, better known as Tweed Courthouse, is architecturally one of New York’s greatest civic monuments. Built between 1861 and 1881, it is the product of two of New York’s most prominent 19th-century architects, John Kellum and Leopold Eidlitz.

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