Federal Hall, Wall Street, New York. Constructed in 1842 as a custom house and acting as the US Reserve treasury from 1862- 1920, this building stands on the site where the US congress first met, where the Bill of Rights was passed and where George Washington was inaugurated President. Behind its elegant Greek temple façade, with Doric Columns, is a large rotunda supported on more decorative Corinthian Columns, clearly modelled on the Panteon in Rome with a coffered roof rising to a central circular rooflight. Quite a place.