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It also includes three buildings: the Gould Memorial Library, a Hall of Languages, and a Hall of Philosophy. The Gould Memorial Library was used as a setting in the movies [[A Beautiful Mind]], [[The Thomas Crown Affair]], and [[Sophie's Choice]]. In 2004, the J. Paul Getty Trust donated $228,000 to repair the badly deteriorating building.<ref>Arenson, Karen W. (2004) "Regilding a Bronx Landmark," The New York Times, July 30, 2004, p. B1</ref>
It also includes three buildings: the Gould Memorial Library, a Hall of Languages, and a Hall of Philosophy. The Gould Memorial Library was used as a setting in the movies [[A Beautiful Mind]], [[The Thomas Crown Affair]], and [[Sophie's Choice]]. In 2004, the J. Paul Getty Trust donated $228,000 to repair the badly deteriorating building.<ref>Arenson, Karen W. (2004) "Regilding a Bronx Landmark," The New York Times, July 30, 2004, p. B1</ref>
==Honorees==
These are the 102 people chosen as honorees; as noted above, there are presently only 98 busts; those of [[Andrew Carnegie]], [[Clara Barton]], [[Luther Burbank]] and [[Louis Brandeis]] have not been commissioned or installed.
*[[John Adams]]
*[[John Quincy Adams]]
*[[Jane Addams]]
*[[Louis Agassiz]]
*[[Susan B. Anthony]]
*[[John James Audubon]]
*[[George Bancroft]]
*[[Clara Barton]]
*[[Henry Ward Beecher]]
*[[Alexander Graham Bell]]
*[[Daniel Boone]]
*[[Edwin Booth]]
*[[Louis Brandeis]]
*[[Phillips Brooks]]
*[[William Cullen Bryant]]
*[[Luther Burbank]]
*[[Andrew Carnegie]]
*[[George Washington Carver]]
*[[William Ellery Channing]]
*[[Rufus Choate]]
*[[Henry Clay]]
*[[Samuel Langhorne Clemens]]
*[[Grover Cleveland]]
*[[James Fenimore Cooper]]
*[[Peter Cooper]]
*[[Charlotte Saunders Cushman]]
*[[James Buchanan Eads]]
*[[Thomas Alva Edison]]
*[[Jonathan Edwards]]
*[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]
*[[David Glasgow Farragut]]
*[[Stephen Collins Foster]]
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]
*[[Robert Fulton]]
*[[Josiah Willard Gibbs]]
*[[William Crawford Gorgas]]
*[[Ulysses Simpson Grant]]
*[[Asa Gray]]
*[[Alexander Hamilton]]
*[[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]
*[[Joseph Henry]]
*[[Patrick Henry]]
*[[Oliver Wendell Holmes]]
*[[Oliver Wendell Holmes]]
*[[Mark Hopkins]]
*[[Elias Howe]]
*[[Washington Irving]]
*[[Andrew Jackson]]
*[[Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson ]]
*[[Thomas Jefferson]]
*[[John Paul Jones]]
*[[James Kent]]
*[[Sidney Lanier]]
*[[Robert Edward Lee]]
*[[Abraham Lincoln]]
*[[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]
*[[James Russell Lowell]]
*[[Mary Lyon]]
*[[Edward Alexander MacDowell]]
*[[James Madison]]
*[[Horace Mann]]
*[[John Marshall]]
*[[Matthew Fontaine Maury]]
*[[Albert Abraham Michelson]]
*[[Maria Mitchell]]
*[[James Monroe]]
*[[Samuel Finley Breese Morse]]
*[[William Thomas Green Morton]]
*[[John Lothrop Motley]]
*[[Simon Newcomb]]
*[[Thomas Paine]]
*[[Alice Freeman Palmer]]
*[[Francis Parkman]]
*[[George Peabody]]
*[[William Penn]]
*[[Edgar Allan Poe]]
*[[Walter Reed]]
*[[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]
*[[Theodore Roosevelt]]
*[[Augustus Saint-Gaudens ]]
*[[William Tecumseh Sherman]]
*[[John Philip Sousa]]
*[[Joseph Story]]
*[[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]
*[[Gilbert Charles Stuart]]
*[[Sylvanus Thayer]]
*[[Henry David Thoreau]]
*[[Lillian D. Wald ]]
*[[Booker T. Washington ]]
*[[George Washington]]
*[[Daniel Webster]]
*[[George Westinghouse]]
*[[James Abbott McNeill Whistler]]
*[[Walt Whitman]]
*[[Eli Whitney]]
*[[John Greenleaf Whittier]]
*[[Emma Willard]]
*[[Frances Elizabeth Willard]]
*[[Roger Williams]]
*[[Woodrow Wilson]]
*[[Orville Wright]]
*[[Wilbur Wright]]
==External links==
==External links==
[http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/hallofFame/ Hall of Fame for Great Americans]
[http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/hallofFame/ Hall of Fame for Great Americans]