40 Wall Street

40 Wall Street (HM10VS)

Location: New York, NY 10005 New York County
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Country: United States of America
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N 40° 42.419', W 74° 0.583'

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Built in 1929-30 as the Manhattan Company Building, this pictureseque 927 foot tall skyscraper was planned as the world's tallest building. Crowned by a pyramidal roof and French Gothic spire, it remains an imposing presence on the lower Manhattan skyline. It was designed by H. Craig Severance with Yasau Matsui associate architect and Shreve & Lamb consulting architects. Th Manhattan Company, formed in 1799 to provide pure water to the city, established the Bank of Manhattan that same year in a rowhouse on this site. Between 1929 and 1960, the Bank of Manhattan maintained banking faciilites in this skyscraper. 40 Wall Street was acquired by the Trump Organization in 1995.
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HM NumberHM10VS
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Date Added Monday, October 20th, 2014 at 12:46pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18T E 583652 N 4506701
Decimal Degrees40.70698333, -74.00971667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 40° 42.419', W 74° 0.583'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds40° 42' 25.14" N, 74° 0' 34.98" W
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Area Code(s)212, 646, 917, 347, 718
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 40 Wall St, New York NY 10005, US
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