Land Title Building
- Year
- 1898
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Philadelphia, PA
The Land Title Building and Annex at 100 S. Broad Street was built in two phases for the Land Title Bank and Trust Company, the oldest title insurance company in the world. Chicago architect Daniel Burnham designed the original 15-story northern tower in 1898, then returned in 1902 with Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer to add a 22-story, 331-foot southern tower on the site of the former Lafayette Hotel. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
the building
Two towers, one complex. The northern tower rose first in 1898 at fifteen stories; four years later the taller southern tower reached 331 feet over 22 stories, and the two are joined at the first floor into a single building.
the style
The building draws on Neoclassical and Chicago School design, the vocabulary Burnham helped establish for the early skyscraper.
More on Neoclassicalthe architect
Daniel Burnham was a Chicago-based architect and an early pioneer of the tall office building; he designed both towers here, collaborating with Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer on the 1902 addition.
significance
A Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission marker outside commemorates Anne Brancato Wood, a state legislator and entrepreneur whose offices were in the building; the complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
nearby
- North American Building
- Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia
- One South Broad
- Church of The Epiphany
- Philadelphia City Hall
- The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel