14 Wall Street
- Architects
- Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Trowbridge & Livingston
- Year
- 1912
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Manhattan, NY
14 Wall Street, originally the Bankers Trust Company Building, is a 540-foot skyscraper with 32 usable floors at the intersection of Wall Street and Nassau Street. The original tower, built in 1910-1912 on the site of the Stevens and Gillender Buildings, was designed by Trowbridge & Livingston in the Neoclassical style as Bankers Trust's headquarters. A 25-story Art Deco addition by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon followed in 1931-1933.
the building
Pyramid roof after Halicarnassus. The tower is topped by a seven-story pyramidal roof inspired by the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World.
the style
Trowbridge & Livingston designed the original tower in the Neoclassical style, later paired with an Art Deco addition by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon.
More on Neoclassicalthe architect
Trowbridge & Livingston designed the 1910-1912 original tower; Shreve, Lamb & Harmon designed the 1931-1933 addition.
significance
14 Wall Street is a New York City Landmark. Bankers Trust moved employees out after building new headquarters in 1962 and 1974, and sold 14 Wall Street in 1987.
nearby
- Federal Hall
- American Surety Company Building
- New York Stock Exchange
- 23 Wall Street
- Equitable Building
- 1 Wall Street Building