Bankers Trust Company Building, Broad Street, Nassau St.

The Broad Street looking toward the Bankers Trust Company Building (with pyramid), 16 Wall Street at Nassau Street. Photograph by Irving Underhill, copyright 1912. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The Bankers Trust Company Building (8-20 Wall Street) was built from 1910 to 1912. It was designed by Trowbridge & Livingston in the neoclassical style. It is 540 feet tall, with 32 usable above-ground floors and a 7-story pyramidal roof at the top. It replaced the Gillender Building, completed in 1897 and demolished in 1910. The Wilks Building on the southwest corner of Broad Street and Wall Street, was completed in 1890 and it was demolished in 1920. It is adjacent to the New York Stock Exchange building. The Commercial Cable Company Building and Blair Building, on the corner of Exchange Place, are on the left.