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40 Wall Street
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Office skyscraper in Manhattan, New York
Key facts
- Alternative names
- Trump Building, Manhattan Company Building
- Preceded by
- Woolworth Building
- Surpassed by
- Chrysler Building
- Type
- Office building
- Architectural style
- Neo-Gothic
- Location
- 40 Wall Street, Manhattan , New York, U.S.
- Construction started
- May 1929 ; 97 years ago ( 1929-05 )
- Topped out
- November 13, 1929 ; 96 years ago ( 1929-11-13 )
- Completed
- May 1, 1930 ; 96 years ago ( 1930-05-01 )
- Opening
- May 26, 1930 ; 96 years ago ( 1930-05-26 )
- Owner
- 40 Wall Street Holdings Corp
- Landlord
- The Trump Organization
- Architectural
- 927 ft (283 m)
- Top floor
- 836 ft (255 m)
- Floor count
- 70 (+2 below ground)
- Floor area
- 1,111,675 ft (103,278.0 m )
- Architects
- H. Craig Severance (main architect), Yasuo Matsui (associate architect), Shreve & Lamb (consulting architect)
- Area
- less than one acre
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
40 Wall Street – The Trump Building
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- skyscraper
- Named after
- Bank of the Manhattan Company
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Manhattan
- Owned by
- MetLife
- Material used
- granite
- Official website
- www.40wallstreet.com
- Image
- 40 Wall Street.jpg
- Height
- 284
- Has use
- office
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- price
- 1250000
- Commons category
- 40 Wall Street
- floors above ground
- 70
- number of elevators
- 36
- inception
- 1930-00-00
- located on street
- Wall Street
- capital cost
- 24000000
- commissioned by
- Bank of the Manhattan Company
- occupant
- American Express
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Encyclopedic overview
40 Wall Street (also the Trump Building; formerly the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building and Manhattan Company Building) is a 927-foot-tall (283 m) neo-Gothic skyscraper on Wall Street between Nassau and William streets in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Erected in 1929–1930 as the headquarters of the Manhattan Company, the building was designed by H. Craig Severance with Yasuo Matsui and Shreve & Lamb. The building is a New York City designated landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP); it is also a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District, an NRHP district.
The building is on an L-shaped site. While the lower section has a facade of limestone, the upper stories incorporate a buff-colored brick facade and contain numerous setbacks. The facade also includes spandrels between the windows on each story, which are recessed behind the vertical piers on the facade. At the top of the building is a pyramid with a spire at its pinnacle. Inside, the lower floors contained the Manhattan Company's double-height banking room, a board room, a trading floor, and two basements with vaults. The remaining stories were rented to tenants; there were private clubs on several floors, as well as an observation deck on the 69th and 70th floors.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “40 Wall Street” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.