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During the eighteenth century, the original Federal Hall was the site of some of New York's greatest events and served as the country's first Capitol under the Constitution. On April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in there as the first President of the United States, and later that year Congress adopted the Bill of Rights on that site. The site also was the place of the imprisonment and trial of John Peter Zenger, a landmark case in freedom of speech and press. In 1790 the Federal Government moved from Federal Hall to Philadelphia, and in 1800 to Washington, D.C. The existing Greek Revival structure was built in 1842 as a United States Subtreasury.
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