James Hall Office

Infobox_nrhp | name =James Hall Office
nrhp_type = nhl
locmapin = New York

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caption = Front elevation, 2008
location= Albany, NY
lat_degrees = 42 | lat_minutes = 38 | lat_seconds = 45.44 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 73 | long_minutes = 46 | long_seconds = 9.03 | long_direction = W
area =
built =1852
architect= Calvert Vaux and Andrew Jackson Downing
architecture= Italianate
designated= December 08, 1976cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1635&ResourceType=Building |title=James Hall Office|date=2007-09-15|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = December 08, 1976cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Local
refnum=76001204

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.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/99000631.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Petrified Sea Gardens / Ritchie Park] |420 KB|author=Joanne Kluessendorf|date=July 14, 1998|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/99000631.pdf Accompanying 2 exterior photos from 1998, plus image of Winifred Goldring, undated] |550 KB]

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.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/76001204.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: James Hall's Office] |420 KB|author=James Sheire |date=July 9, 1976|publisher=National Park Service]

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