Undulating paths lead through 2, 700 gray columns of varying height, making a visit to the memorial a suitably unsettling experience.

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The New Amsterdam Room, originally the men's smoking retreat, is a marvelous elliptical space ringed with rotund plaster columns resembling gray Caen stone, and murals of New York from Dutch days to 1900.

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