Double Partner's Desk
The noted American architect, Cass Gilbert, designed this impressive and commanding desk for the Collector's Office of the New York Customs House. Dated 1907, the drawings for this desk as well as three other desks in the Treasury Collection, survive in the archives of the New-York Historical Society. Gilbert modeled the desk after early 18th-century English Georgian examples and chose richly grained Circassian walnut as the wood for the desk's construction. The desk came to Treasury when the New York Customs House at Bowling Green was moved to a new building.
