New York Stock Exchange Building, Stock exchange building in Financial District, United States.

The New York Stock Exchange Building occupies the block between Broad Street, Wall Street, New Street and Exchange Place. Its older section at 18 Broad Street, faced in white Georgia marble, has a two-story granite podium and a colonnade of six columns topped by a pediment carved with figures of commerce and industry. The 23-story annex at 11 Wall Street, completed in 1922, stands behind it.

George B. Post designed the structure and completed it in 1903 to meet the growing need of the exchange for a permanent home. Before this construction, traders met at different locations in Lower Manhattan, including under a buttonwood tree near present-day Wall Street.

The portico carries sculptures representing global commerce, created by sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward and his assistant Paul Wayland Bartlett. These figures show workers, inventors, and merchants as symbols of economic activity in the early twentieth century.

The structure sits directly at the corner of Wall Street and Broad Street and can be reached on foot from several subway stations within a few minutes. Visitors can view the exterior facade from the sidewalk at any time, while access to the interior is available only through organized tours with advance registration.

The trading room extends over a large area with a high ceiling held up by steel trusses and originally housed a system of pneumatic tubes and electrical wires used for communication between traders. These technical elements remain visible today and recall the early methods of message exchange before the digital era.