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The Equitable Trust Building, also known as the Broad and Locust Building, is a historic commercial
skyscraper A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Most modern sources define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition, other than being very tall high-rise bui ...
located at 1405
Locust Street Locust Street is a major historic street in Center City Philadelphia. The street is the location of several prominent Philadelphia-based buildings, historic sights, and high-rise residential locations. It is an east–west street throughout Ce ...
in
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.


Description and history

Situated three blocks south of
Philadelphia City Hall Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of the City of Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Built in the ornate Second Empire style, City Hall houses the chambers of the Philadelphia City Council and the office ...
designed by
Horace Trumbauer Horace Trumbauer (December 28, 1868 – September 18, 1938) was a prominent American architect of the Gilded Age, known for designing residential manors for the wealthy. Later in his career he also designed hotels, office buildings, and much of t ...
. Trumbauer designed the 21-story building in 1925 after completing a similarly styled residential building, the Chateau Crillon Apartment House on
Rittenhouse Square Rittenhouse Square is a public park in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is the center of the eponymous Rittenhouse neighborhood. The square is one of the five original open-space parks planned by William Penn and his surveyor Thomas ...
for the owner of the Equitable Trust Company, Louis Cahan.George E. Thomas, NRHP Nomination Form Equitable Trust Building/ref> The building was listed on the
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on July 3, 1986.


See also

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References

{{Authority control Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Commercial buildings completed in 1925 Gothic Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Horace Trumbauer buildings Locust Street National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia Skyscraper office buildings in Philadelphia