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James Hall Office
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Front elevation, 2008
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| Location: | Albany, NY |
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| Built: | 1852 |
| Architect: | Calvert Vaux and Andrew Jackson Downing |
| Architectural style: | Italianate |
| Governing body: | Local |
| NRHP Reference#: | 76001204 |
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| Added to NRHP: | December 8, 1976[1] |
| Designated NHL: | December 8, 1976[2] |
James Hall Office, also known as Sunshine School, is located on Lincoln Park in Albany, New York. It was the office of paleontologist James Hall, a leader in research on the geology of North America during the 19th century.
Among his many works, James Hall identified that stromatolite fossils discovered at Petrified Sea Gardens, a site near Saratoga Springs, New York that is now another National Historic Landmark, were originally organic.[3]
Constructed circa 1852, the building was designed during a bried period of collaboration between Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.[2][4]
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