<P> The wooden structure built in 1892 to house the immigration station burned down after five years . The station 's new Main Building , which now houses the Immigration Museum , was opened in 1900 . Architects Edward Lippincott Tilton and William Alciphron Boring received a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition for the building 's design and constructed the building at a cost of $1.5 million . The architecture competition was the second under the Tarsney Act , which had permitted private architects rather than government architects in the Treasury Department 's Office of the Supervising Architect to design federal buildings . </P>
<P> The wooden structure built in 1892 to house the immigration station burned down after five years . The station 's new Main Building , which now houses the Immigration Museum , was opened in 1900 . Architects Edward Lippincott Tilton and William Alciphron Boring received a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition for the building 's design and constructed the building at a cost of $1.5 million . The architecture competition was the second under the Tarsney Act , which had permitted private architects rather than government architects in the Treasury Department 's Office of the Supervising Architect to design federal buildings . </P>
when was ellis island made into a museum
when was ellis island made into a museum
1900
1900