The Thurgood Marshall Courthouse is a 590ft (180m) tall skyscraper in New York City. Designed by prolific architect Cass Gilbert and his son, the building stands tall over Lower Manhattan's Civic Center. The building, originally called the Foley Square Courthouse, was completed in 1936. The courthouse was renamed in 2001 in honor of Thurgood Marshall, a prominent lawyer and Supreme Court Justice who won crucial civil rights cases in the Supreme Court on behalf of the NAACP.
The building hosts the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. It's imosing classical design and brilliant golden pyramid roof makes the tower one of the finest buildings of pre-war New York.