Established by the 1801 will of Captain Robert Richard Randall, who bequeathed his fortune to the establishment and maintenance of a "home for aged, decrepit, and worn-out" American sailors, Sailors' Snug Harbor opened its New Brighton, Staten Island site in 1833 with twenty sailors. This photograph shows two of the buildings on the site, the Church and the Music Hall, both considered fine examples of the Greek Revival style.

Sailors' Snug Harbor moved to the North Carolina coast in the 1970s, and the site now accommodates more than seventy cultural organizations, including the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, a botanical garden and children's museum.