New York Stock Exchange
- Architects
- George B. Post Trowbridge & Livingston
- Year
- 1903
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The New York Stock Exchange Building at 8-18 Broad Street has been the headquarters of the NYSE since 1903. It occupies much of the block bounded by Wall Street, Broad Street, New Street, and Exchange Place, and it stands as one of the country's defining monuments to American finance, recognized as a National Historic Landmark.
the building
Broad Street colonnade. The marble facade at 18 Broad Street is fronted by a colonnade facing Broad Street, sitting atop a two-story podium. It carries a pediment sculpted by John Quincy Adams Ward and Paul Wayland Bartlett depicting commerce and industry, and it has become the building's most recognized image.
Two connected buildings. The complex is actually two structures joined together: the original 18 Broad Street building designed by George B. Post in the Classical Revival style, and a 23-story office annex at 11 Wall Street added later by Trowbridge & Livingston in a similar design.
The trading floor. Behind the Broad Street colonnade sits the main trading floor, a rectangular room 72 feet tall. A second trading floor nicknamed the Garage was added later to expand capacity.
the style
The building is worked in the Classical Revival style, using a monumental colonnade and pediment to give the business of trading stocks the visual authority of a temple or civic monument. The annex at 11 Wall Street was designed to echo the same classical vocabulary so the two structures read as one composition.
More on Neoclassicalthe architect
George B. Post designed the original 18 Broad Street structure. The firm of Trowbridge & Livingston later added the 23-story annex at 11 Wall Street, matching Post's classical design language for the expanded complex.
significance
The building is a National Historic Landmark and a New York City Individual Landmark (LP-01529), also listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and the New York State Register of Historic Places, designated on 7/9/1985.
nearby
- 23 Wall Street
- 1 Wall Street Building
- 14 Wall Street
- Federal Hall
- Continental Bank Building
- American Surety Company Building