{"nrhp_refnum":"00000577","name":"Manhattan Company Building","other_names":["Bank of Manhattan Building","Trump Building at 40 Wall Street"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"40 Wall St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.706941278000045,"lon":-74.00966929499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-06-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 71-story, 927-foot steel-frame skyscraper at 40 Wall Street (on an L-shaped lot reaching Pine Street) in the Financial District of Manhattan, built in 1929-30 as the headquarters of the Manhattan Company and its bank affiliates.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is one of the most important New York skyscrapers of the 1920s and a significant example of massing shaped by the 1916 zoning law. It was also the headquarters of the city's second oldest bank. It was planned as the world's tallest building and briefly held that title before the Chrysler Building surpassed it.","narrative":"Rising 927 feet on Wall Street and Pine Street, this 71-story skyscraper was built in 1929-30 for the Manhattan Company, whose bank traces to 1799. H. Craig Severance was lead architect, assisted by Yasuo Matsui and Shreve & Lamb, with Moran & Proctor as engineers and Starrett Brothers & Eken as builders. Construction took about a year. The tower has a limestone base, buff brick walls with terra-cotta trim, setbacks dictated by the 1916 zoning law, and a pyramidal roof topped by a French Gothic flèche. It was meant to be the world's tallest building and held that distinction only briefly before the Chrysler Building surpassed it. Surviving interiors include the Pine Street banking hall with black marble columns, the officers' quarters, a fourth-floor board room modeled on the Signers' Room at Independence Hall, and basement vaults. It was listed for its architecture and its role in commerce.","period_of_significance":"1929-1960","architect_builder":"H. Craig Severance; Yasuo Matsui, associate architect; Shreve & Lamb, consulting architects","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Skyscraper","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as an office building; the form says it retains a high degree of integrity, though the Wall Street lobby and Officers' Club are gone and the ground floors were altered in the 1960s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.111208-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/00000577.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000577/805f11fc30-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000577/805f11fc30-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"ChrisRuvolo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:40_Wall_Street.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">ChrisRuvolo</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:40_Wall_Street.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07000063","name":"Wall Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/wall-street-historic-district-07000063/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319718","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_Wall_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q218305"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/manhattan-company-building-00000577/"}