New York City Designated Landmark
55 Wall Street was designed by prominent Boston Architect Isaiah Rogers and constructed between 1836 and 1842. The façade of the original four-story, Greek Revival style building features twelve massive Ionic columns, each a single block of Quincy granite. In 1899, First National Bank, which subsequently became Citibank, commissioned architects McKim, Mead and White to remodel the building for use as their headquarters. The architects added four stories to the building and superimposed a second colonnade of Corinthian columns above the original façade. They also redesigned the interior into an immense banking hall featuring a sixty-foot-high central dome and offices at each corner. Sold in the mid-1980s, the former bank building became the Regent Wall Street Hotel in 1999. After the terrorist attack on the World Trade center on September 11, 2001, 55 Wall Street served as a relief center for workers and area residents.HM Number | HM2CYD |
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Marker Condition | No reports yet |
Date Added | Friday, December 21st, 2018 at 1:01pm PST -08:00 |
UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18T E 583671 N 4506626 |
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Decimal Degrees | 40.70630000, -74.00950000 |
Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 40° 42.378', W 74° 0.57' |
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 40° 42' 22.68" N, 74° 0' 34.2" W |
Driving Directions | Google Maps |
Area Code(s) | 646, 212, 917, 845 |
Which side of the road? | Marker is on the right when traveling East |
Closest Postal Address | At or near , New York NY 10038, US |
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