The Hall of Fame for Great Americans is an outdoor sculpture gallery, located on the grounds of Bronx Community College in The Bronx, New York City. Completed in 1900 as part of the University Heights campus of New York University, the 630-foot (192 m) stone colonnade half-encircles the university library and houses 98 bronze portrait busts. Designed by architect Stanford White (who also designed the library), the Beaux Arts structure was donated by Helen Gould, and was formally dedicated on May 30, 1901.
New York University vacated the campus in 1973, the same year that Bronx Community College took possession. Though the Hall's renown has itself faded, its architecture remains, and it stands as a secular national shrine not just to great men and woman, but to Roman ideals of fame favored at the beginning of the 20th century.
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