Wall Street and Water Street

Wall Street in the Financial Diastrict, looking west toward Trinity Street on Broadway, from near Water Street. Photograph by Edmund L. Mitchell (1905-1981), dated 1963. Source: Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library.

Photo shows some of the skyscrapers of the time. Forty Wall Street (its tower seen on the right) was the world's tallest building in 1930. On the northwest corner of Wall and Water streets (right) stands the Tontine Building, completed in 1902, now Wall Street Hotel. The buildings on the the southwest corner of Wall and Water streets were replaced by the 75 Wall Street, a 42-story skyscraper, completed in 1987. The skyscraper on the left is the 20 Exchange Place, formerly the City Bank–Farmers Trust Building, completed in 1931.