Castle Clinton

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1811

Type

building

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A circular fort of red sandstone sits at the water's edge of Battery Park, built between 1808 and 1811 as the West Battery to guard the harbor approaches to Lower Manhattan. John McComb Jr. designed the low, thick-walled work, with Jonathan …

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