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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Square Footage
65,000 SF
Architect
Tim Marshall
Architects
Engineer
Office of James
Ruderman
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
55 Water Street
New York, NY
Plaza Construction Corporation was selected by New Water Street
Corporation to perform Construction Management Services for the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza Re-Development project at 55 Water
Street in lower Manhattan.
On November 9, 2001, after a two-and-a-half year, $7.4 million fund raising and construction effort spearheaded
by Chapter 126, the Vietnam Veterans Plaza was rededicated.
That morning, the Plaza quickly filled with several thousand veterans
and other participants, including several hundred family members of
New York City men who died in Vietnam.
Several major changes and additions were made. Most significant to
the addition is the Walk of Hero's, a 125-foot walkway girded by 12
granite pylons that list the names of the 1,741 men from New York
City who were killed or remain missing in Vietnam. The entries, listed
alphabetically and including ages, identify 15-year old Dan Bullock,
who lied about his age to the Marine Corps upon induction.
Behind the memorial’s glass wall is a circular pool surrounded by a
stone amphitheater behind which stand a grove of young sycamores.
The wall is flanked by flagpoles displaying the American and POW flags.
Six additional flagpoles line the South Street entrance to the Plaza.
The service flags fly from five of them. On the sixth flies the flag of
the Vietnam Veterans of America.
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