New York Stock Exchange Building, Stock exchange building in Financial District, United States.
The New York Stock Exchange stands on Wall Street in the Financial District of Manhattan and shows a neoclassical facade of white marble with six Corinthian columns. The structure rises above a podium with seven openings and has tall glass windows that bring daylight into the trading room.
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.
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