The Old Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building in
Old Hall Street
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in Liverpool was a huge and superb Edwardian building designed by
Huon Arthur Matear and
Frank Worthington Simon, built by the Waring-White Building Company, and was officially opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales on 30 November 1906. The building cost around £300,000 build and the opening took place in the company of 3,000 guests. Its façade was in
Neoclassical style, with
Baroque
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towers at the angles.
Its exterior decoration included statues. Inside the building was the latest technology for communicating with cotton trading elsewhere in the world, including telephones, and cables linking directly with New York, Bremen and Bombay.
The Old Hall Street front of the
Cotton Exchange by Matear & Simon in
Baroque Revival architecture
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style was replaced in 1967–69
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Liverpool's Destroyed or Demolished Landmarks with a modern-style façade designed by Newton-Dawson, Forbes and Tate and the former main exchange hall was replaced by a courtyard.[
File:Official Opening of the Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building by the Prince of Wales (later, King George V) 30th November 1906 from "The Illustrated London News" 8 December 1906, page 850.jpg, Official Opening of the Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building by the Prince of Wales (later, King George V) 30th November 1906 from "The Illustrated London News" 8 December 1906, page 850.
File:The opening of the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, 1906.jpg
Sculpture, Liverpool Cotton Exchange courtyard (2).JPG, "Commerce" statue, Liverpool Cotton Exchange courtyard
File:Sculpture, Liverpool Cotton Exchange courtyard (3).JPG, "Navigation" statue
File:Statue outside Cotton Exchange, Liverpool (2).jpg, "The River Mersey" statue
File:Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building, from "The Illustrated London News" 8 December 1906 (4).png
File:Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building, from "The Illustrated London News" 8 December 1906 (3).png
File:Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building, from "The Illustrated London News" 8 December 1906 (2).png
File:Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building, from "The Illustrated London News" 8 December 1906 (1).png
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Grade II listed buildings in Liverpool
Demolished buildings and structures in Liverpool