Equitable Trust Building
- Architect
- Horace Trumbauer
- Year
- 1925
- City
- Philadelphia, PA
The Equitable Trust Building, also known as the Broad and Locust Building, is a 21-story commercial skyscraper at 1405 Locust Street, three blocks south of City Hall. Horace Trumbauer designed it in 1925 for Louis Cahan, owner of the Equitable Trust Company, shortly after completing the similarly styled Chateau Crillon Apartment House on Rittenhouse Square. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1986.
the architect
Horace Trumbauer was a major Philadelphia Gilded Age architect. He designed this 21-story tower in 1925 right after his residential Chateau Crillon Apartment House on Rittenhouse Square, carrying that project's vocabulary into a commercial high-rise.
significance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1986.
nearby
- The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel
- Academy of Music
- Clarence B. Moore House
- Dr. Joseph Leidy House
- St. James Hotel
- Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts