Ellis Island Main Immigration Building

1:1500 scale miniature paper model, about 3.5 inches wide

Ellis Island operated as a primary entry point to the United States from 1892 to 1954. The Main Immigration Building, designed by architects Edward Tilton and William Boring, examined 5,000 to 7,000 immigrants per day in its busiest years from 1903 to 1914.

Read More:

• Visitors information for Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty
• Save Ellis Island seeks to preserve the other buildings on the island
• A geneological quest to find the descendants of Annie Moore, the first immigrant to arrive at Ellis Island
• The story of immigrants being forced to change their names at Ellis Island is not true
• A 1998 Supreme Court decision awared 90% of the island to New Jersey
• American Passage: The History of Ellis Island, by Vincent J. Cannato, Harper Perennial (2010)