26 Broadway

The former Standard Oil Building is a building in Manhattan, New York at the beginning of Broadway, right on the Bowling Green.

History

In 1922 the building in Lower Manhattan at the bottom of Broadway No. 26 The facade is reminiscent of the Municipal Building, except that it is bent in the other direction, namely because it follows the curvature of the road - then a novel idea. Among the founders of the oil company, which was built in 1922, this building, including John D. Rockefeller, who played a decisive role in the history of New York. By 2006, was located in this building, the Museum of American Financial History, which now has its headquarters in 48 Wall Street.

The building has, for its intended purpose, the form of an oil lamp. From here you could at the time, their own ships look in and out - and of course the competition.