Carroll Hall is a hidden botanical walled garden and series of buildings that explore material reuse of the site and ideas of time travel and ecology to create immersive, unlikely experiences. Visitors continually discover the unexpected within an architecture of crafted materials and unconventional construction techniques. The buildings breathe with automated windows and skylights to naturally ventilate. Handmade mosaic murals tell stories of underground creatures. There are moving walls and secret doors. The plants present an idealized woodland, dressed-up cousins of what might have grown along the edges of fields and farms past. At Carroll Hall, there is interdependence between plants, animals, people, and architecture. It is a unique and highly specific formal space in New York City.

The wall that contains the garden is an artwork constructed of pieces from previous buildings on site—from 16,000 years ago to today. It is a time machine. The architects reused over 11,000 salvaged bricks from the demolition of an existing warehouse to create a 200-foot long streetwall of reassembled bricks and stones, illustrating the material history of the site in an impressionistic tapestry.

Sunday Tours: 12, 1, and 2pm

Architect Christopher Dameron will be on site to give first-come, first-served tours that will provide guests with information to enrich their own discovery of the space. The tour will touch on ecology, ideas of time travel, and material origins and reuse. Tours are 30 minutes each.

Family Programming: Dameron Architecture will be offering a "scavenger hunt" postcard to inspire self-exploration of the street wall and artwork, "A Wall Made of Bricks."

The guided tour will be fully wheelchair accessible. There are no stairs involved in the tour. Seating and drinking water can be made available upon request to a volunteer or staff member at Carroll Hall.

This is an indoor/outdoor space, and the majority of the tour will be outside. Dress accordingly and comfortably. Carroll Hall's visitor policy can be found at: https://www.carrollhall.com/faq-and-visitor-policy

Children are welcome accompanied by an adult and must be supervised at all times.