Old New York Stock Exchange Building on Broad Street

The old New-York Stock Exchange building at 10 Broad Street, after expansion completed in 1881 (and before 1889, when the building in the extreme right was replaced by the Wilks Building). Undated photograph from George P. Hall & Son photograph collection, New-York Historical Society.

After the War of Independence (1775-1783), a group of brokers entered into an agreement in 1792 and laid the foundation for the New York Stock Exchange. The institution, formally organized in 1817, occupies this site on Broad Street, extending through to New Street, since 1865, when it moved from the Lord's Court building. This building, with a marble façade, was the first permanent home of the NYSE. It was demolished in 1901 to make way for the present neoclassical structure at 18 Broad Street, erected between 1901 and 1903.

Offices of the Western Union Telegraph, the Mining-Review and the Manufacturer's Advertising Bureau are in the adjoining building and 1889 was the last year of overhead wires on Wall Street. They were buried before February 1890.