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Speaker 0: We have just exposed that the United States National Archives, NARA's cartographic branch, is missing the documents, the blueprints and the rest, to hundreds of federally funded structures, and the records are completely missing.
Speaker 1: NARA gave us the master list, granting behind-the-scenes access to their internal documentation and the official records of the US government's construction records. The master list shows every single federally held architectural record, including whether they have the original blueprints, construction drawings, ledgers, and documentation for buildings funded, commissioned, or maintained by the US government. Out of 21,400 structures in the master list, the new custom house in New Orleans, built in 1849, appears; there were reportedly two earlier ones—the first customs house designed in 1809 and replaced around 1819. Around 1819, they say, this worked for decades.
Speaker 0: Can you
Speaker 1: believe this? This is the mainstream narrative for you. Around 1819. That doesn’t work anymore. They try to tell us all about the thirteen hundreds, but they can't figure out what happened in the eighteenth hundreds from a supposed federally funded project. I’ve had enough of their stories. And then a third structure arrives on the scene. It’s a palace—the current US customs house in New Orleans—which the master list identifies as one of the oldest and most important federally funded buildings, a major work of architecture commissioned by the US federal government in the 1800s. This is a granite building with a grand marble hall. Yet the National Archives holds zero documents on its construction—zero. Not one document. This is 1849. This is not 1492. This is only, like, four or five people ago. Only 177 years.
And the Marble Hall, a Greek revival style room, is described in that master list as a centerpiece, yet the National Archives does not hold a single construction document. Let’s go further. A federally commissioned building tied to record group 77, the US Army Corps of Engineers, falls under strict federal record-keeping laws requiring preservation of original blueprints, engineering drawings, specifications, inspection reports, and construction ledgers. The master list classifies it under CWMF (centralized waterway management file) and consolidated file 35, signaling that detailed blueprints and primary documentation are missing or no longer exist as standalone records. All of this proves that the documentation was expected to exist, yet there is not a single original construction record. This undermines their claim that the structure was actually constructed in 1849 as described. Zero documentation. No ledgers, no blueprints, no logs. Where are these receipts to their story?
Remember from episode 160, NARA told us that if it is missing from the master list, they do not have it in their holdings. NARA is the legal custodian of all permanent federal records; permanent records are required to be preserved in NARA holdings. If the records are not within the master list, they were destroyed, never transferred, misplaced, or never existed. And that last option would make verification of construction history impossible. I’ve begun asking for FOIAs. I sent one on 12/01/2025 for the Alexander Hamilton US Custom House at 1 Bowling Green, New York. They have twenty business days under FOIA law to reply after status received; they’ve responded, and I’ll keep you updated.
This structure was not within the master list, so it is publicly funded. We’re just getting started today. Welcome to episode 162 of my lunch break. If you’re new, welcome. Thanks to sponsors on Patreon. The master list is provided, and the episode can be purchased with a USB containing the master list.
The list shows that in New York, New York, the master list contains only nine structures in its catalog at the National Archives, which is insane given New York’s hundreds of federally funded buildings. We have exposed that NARA’s cartographic branch is missing documents, blueprints, and the rest for hundreds of federally funded structures, to the point that they don’t even name the buildings in the master list.
This is a massive exposure. Why hasn’t any mainstream scholar challenged these narratives? A systematic documentation failure is suggested: not having the Alexander Custom House listed, and other structures like Federal Hall, Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, and James A. Farley Post Office are also not on the master list. Nothing from these structures has survived, or, as I believe, they never existed.
We’ve shown emails where archivists need to reconsider their job. There is something massive going on, and the history we’re told is unverified. The master list goes back to 1705 (Fort Plans in Costco Bay, Maine). The first thing we find is a fortress in the middle of the water with no documentation proving construction in 1705. A map from 1720 shows an old world palace off the coast of Maine, contradicting the notion that materials could be shipped a mile offshore in the 1700s. The master list may reveal incredible structures in North America as we continue from the bottom up.