{"nrhp_refnum":"04001011","name":"Wall Street Subway Station (IRT)","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Under Broadway at Wall, Pine, Rector Sts. and Exchange Place","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.70764448400007,"lon":-74.01183706899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-09-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture","Art","Engineering","Community Planning and Development","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An underground side-platform subway station beneath Broadway at Wall, Pine and Rector streets and Exchange Place in Lower Manhattan, built in 1904 and opened in 1905 as part of the original IRT system's Contract 2 extension.","why_significant":"The station is significant for its role in transportation and in the development of the Wall Street financial district, and for its engineering, architecture and art. It retains high-quality original decoration, including faience plaques, marble wainscoting, mosaic name tablets, the system's last original oak ticket booth, and one of only two surviving sets of cast iron entrance hoods.","narrative":"Wall Street Subway Station is an underground station beneath Broadway in Lower Manhattan, built in 1904 and opened in 1905 as part of an extension of the original Interborough Rapid Transit system. It was built by the cut-and-cover method, with a steel and concrete frame, and engineer William Barclay Parsons handled the structure. Architects George L. Heins and Christopher Grant LaFarge designed the decoration, drawing on City Beautiful ideas. The downtown platform keeps much of its white glass tile, rose marble wainscoting, and faience plaques showing the Dutch wall and a stepped-gable house tied to the 1626 purchase of New Amsterdam. Other surviving features include the last original oak ticket booth in the system, bronze light fixtures, and a rare pair of cast iron entrance hoods. The station helped bring clerks and other workers into the Wall Street financial district. It was listed for its transportation role, community development, engineering, architecture and art.","period_of_significance":"1904-1905","architect_builder":"Parsons, William Barclay (engineer); Heins, George L. and LaFarge, Christopher G. (architects)","architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals/Beaux-Arts","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a subway station; the uptown platform walls were covered in modern blue tile in the late 1970s or early 1980s, while the downtown platform keeps much of its original decoration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.918721-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04001011.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001011/7f146b7f4f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001011/7f146b7f4f-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BwyWalk0505_StationWallSt.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BwyWalk0505_StationWallSt.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/75313935","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_station_(IRT_Lexington_Avenue_Line)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2183775"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/wall-street-subway-station-irt-04001011/"}