Broad Exchange Building

The Broad Exchange Building is a 20 - storey skyscraper in lower Manhattan, the financial district in New York City. It is located in 25 Broad Street. With a height of 84.29 meters, it was one of the tallest buildings in the area when it is completed in 1902. Planning and construction was taken over by the architectural firm of Clinton and Russell. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP Reference number: 98,000,366 ).

Description

The design -oriented especially to the typical skyscraper in New York of the budding 19th century, were used in the designs of the new Renaissance and Neoclassical. Overall, there were 326.500 square meters to rent space.

History

The Broad Exchange Building was during its construction from 1900 to 1902 the tallest office building in Manhattan and at the same time with the highest land value. The renowned architectural firm of Clinton & Russell designed the building, the cost amounted to approximately 3.25 million U.S. dollars. As early as the turn of the century of the 19th century in other skyscrapers of Manhattan, such as the American Surety Building or the Beaver Building, new technologies were also in the Broad Building used, which enabled the construction of higher structures, such as the use of a steel skeleton and elevators. The Broad Exchange Building was one of the most representative buildings of the New York financial industry until it moved further north to Wall Street for a long time.

In 1997 the building was renovated and it created 347 luxury apartments. Here, however, came to a dispute with the conservation authority, which saw the renovation and transformation as hard intervention into the historical building.