Merchants' Exchange on Wall Street - 1830 and 1831
The old Merchants' Exchange building on Wall Street, on the corner of Hanover Street, from the northwest corner of William Street, site of the Bank of America at the time. Illustration drawn by Charles Burton, engraved and printed by Fenner Sears & Co. Published in December 1830 by Simpkin & Marshall & I.T. Hinton, London. Source: New York Public Library.
Below, a similar drawing by the same artist C. Burton, engraved by H. Fossette and published by George Melksham Bourne (1806-1887) in 1831. The Fulton Fire Insurance Company is on the right. Same source NYPL.
The Merchants' Exchange building was designed by Martin Euclid Thompson (1786–1877) and Josiah R. Brady (ca. 1760–1832). It was open for business on May 1, 1827 and the building was completed in July. It was one of the largest buildings in the City of New York at the time, destroyed in the Great Conflagration of 1835. The structure on top of the dome did not belong to the original design. It was a structure added about 1830 for a telegraph station of the post office house in the Merchants' Exchange building.
It was home of the New York Stock and Exchange Board, the post office, the Chamber of Commerce and offices, like the architectural firm of Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis. By 1841, a new Merchants' Exchange building was completed on the same site.
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Merchants' Exchange on Wall Street - 1830 and 1831
