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Street by Street: The Marine Midland
Building rises straight up
Wall Street 55 stories. This dark glass
tower occupies only 40
No intersection has been of greater importance to per cent of its site. The
the city, past or present, than the one at Wall and other 60 per cent is a
Broad streets. Three important sites are located plaza in which a large
red sculpture by Isamu
near here. Federal Hall National Monument marks Noguchi, Cube, balances
the place where, in 1789, George on one of its points.
Washington was sworn in as president.
The New York Stock Exchange,
founded in 1817, is to this day a Trinity Building, an
financial nerve center whose ups early 20th-century
and downs cause tremors globally. Gothic skyscraper,
Nearby, Trinity Church is one of was designed to
the nation’s oldest Anglican complement nearby
Trinity Church.
parishes. The surrounding build ings
are the very heart of New York’s
famous financial district.
The Equitable Building (1915)
deprived its neighbors of light,
prompting a change in the law:
skyscrapers had to be set back
from the street.
5. Trinity Church
Built in 1846 in a
Gothic style, this is the
third church on this
site. Once the tallest Wall Street subway
structure in the city, (lines 4, 5)
the bell tower is now NASSAU STREET
dwarfed by the
skyscrapers that
surround it. Many
famous early New
Yorkers are buried B R O A D W A Y
in the churchyard.

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One Wall Street, built in 1932, E
has an outer wall patterned to R E
look like fabric. In the lobby is E T S T
E X C H A N G E P L A C E
an Art Deco mosaic in shades E D
of flame red and gold. T R A
S O WILLIAM STREET
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3. New York
26 Broadway Stock Exchange
was built as the The hub of the
home of the world’s financial
Standard Oil markets is housed in
Trust. An oil lamp a 17-story building
rests on top of it. constructed in 1903.

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