Merchants Exchange Building (St
Merchants Exchange Building can refer to: * 55 Wall Street, New York, formerly the Merchants' Exchange Building * Merchants' Exchange Building (Philadelphia) * Merchants Exchange Building (San Francisco) * Merchants Exchange Building (St. Louis) * Merchants Exchange (Boston) See also * Royal Exchange (New York) The Royal Exchange building in New York City, later known as the "Old Royal Exchange" and the Merchants Exchange was a covered marketplace located near the foot of Broad Street, near its intersection with Water Street.Suzy Maroon. ''The Supreme C ...

55 Wall Street
55 Wall Street, formerly known as the National City Bank Building, is an eight-story building on Wall Street between William and Hanover streets in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States. The lowest three stories were completed in either 1841 or 1842 as the four-story Merchants' Exchange and designed by Isaiah Rogers in the Greek Revival style. Between 1907 and 1910, McKim, Mead & White removed the original fourth story and added five floors to create the present building. The facade and part of the interior are New York City designated landmarks, and the building is a National Historic Landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The building is also a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District, listed on the NRHP. 55 Wall Street's granite facade contains two stacked colonnades facing Wall Street, each with twelve columns. Inside is a cruciform banking hall with a vaulted ceiling, Corinthian ...
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Merchants' Exchange Building (Philadelphia)
The Merchants' Exchange Building is a historic building located on the triangular site bounded by Dock Street, Third Street, and Walnut Street in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect William Strickland, in the Greek Revival style, the first national American architectural style and built between 1832 and 1834. It operated as a brokerage house in the nineteenth century, but by 1875 the Philadelphia Stock Exchange had taken the place of the Merchants' Exchange. The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2001.Wolf, Zana C. and Tonetti, Charles (September 30, 2000) , National Park Service and It is the oldest existing stock exchange building in the United States, but is now used as the headquarters of the Independence National Historical Park.Historical marker at the building Origin The City Tavern, which had been the center of the Philadelphia business community since it was built in 1773, became increasingly cro ...
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Merchants Exchange Building (San Francisco)
The Merchants Exchange Building is an office building located at 465 California Street, San Francisco, completed in 1904. The property is owned by real estate investor Clint Reilly. History The Merchants Exchange actually refers to three distinct buildings in the city's history, the first on Battery Street, and the latter two at the present site on California Street, between Montgomery Street and Leidesdorff Alley. Predecessors The original Battery Street building, two blocks from the current site, was a three-story brick structure built in 1851 to house the ''Merchants Exchange'', an association of city traders and businessmen. It had a library and a meeting room with bulletins on arriving ships and cargoes. Watchmen on the roof would relay messages of arriving ships to the merchants in the meeting room below, so they could then rush to the docks to meet them. The second structure, on California Street, was also three-story building, but in the Beaux-Arts style. Since i ...
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Merchants Exchange Building (St
Merchants Exchange Building can refer to: * 55 Wall Street, New York, formerly the Merchants' Exchange Building * Merchants' Exchange Building (Philadelphia) * Merchants Exchange Building (San Francisco) * Merchants Exchange Building (St. Louis) * Merchants Exchange (Boston) See also * Royal Exchange (New York) The Royal Exchange building in New York City, later known as the "Old Royal Exchange" and the Merchants Exchange was a covered marketplace located near the foot of Broad Street, near its intersection with Water Street.Suzy Maroon. ''The Supreme C ...

Merchants Exchange (Boston)
The Merchants Exchange building (1842-1890) in Boston, Massachusetts was built in 1841 from a design by architect Isaiah Rogers. Centrally located on State Street, it functioned as a hub for business activities in the city. History The Merchants Exchange served as one of Boston's "great gathering-points of the traders -- the marble-paved and frescoed hall ... with its newspaper files, bulletins, wind vane, and ship registry." It was "elegant ... with a fine reading-room, ... and besides accommodations for the post office, and for several insurance and brokers' offices, affords many conveniences for the mercantile community." Architecture Built in 1841-1842 by architect Isaiah Rogers, Merchants Exchange was considered "among the best specimens of architecture in Boston" and "a dignified building in its day." Re-modelling occurred after the building "went down" in the fire of 1872.
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