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Continental Bank Building

Architect
Cross & Cross
Year
1932
Style
Art Deco
City
Manhattan, NY
Continental Bank Building
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The Continental Bank Building is a 50-story Art Deco skyscraper at 30 Broad Street, next to the New York Stock Exchange, designed by Cross & Cross and announced in 1929 to house the Continental Bank and Trust Company and various brokers. It replaced the 15-story Johnston Building on a site once owned by the Dutch Reformed Church, which had built the city's second almshouse there before 1659. Estimated to cost $20 million, it was the largest single cooperative building venture undertaken up to that time.

the building

Pneumatic tube clearing house. A sub-basement clearing house let owner-tenants each hold floor space and transact business with other owner-tenants in the building via a system of pneumatic tubes exchanging receipts.

the style

Cross & Cross designed the building's 50-story form in the Art Deco style prevailing among Financial District towers of the era.

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the architect

The building was planned by the firm Cross and Cross.

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