Wall Street Historic District (Manhattan)
The Wall Street Historic District in New York City includes part of Wall Street and parts of nearby streets in the Financial District in lower Manhattan. It includes 65 contributing buildings and one contributing structure over a listed area.
The historic district's street plan originated in the colonial era. It "reflects medieval European town patterns rather than the standard grid found throughout much of Manhattan, and together with the district's towering skyscrapers it creates the narrow 'canyons' for which the area is so famous."Sites within the district
Within the historic district are 21 sites that are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as follows:
- Bowling Green - also a New York City Landmark
- Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House - also a New York City Landmark
- New York Stock Exchange - also a New York City Landmark
- Broad Exchange Building
- Lee, Higginson & Company Bank Building
- American Bank Note Company Building - also a New York City Landmark
- International Mercantile Marine Company Building - also a New York City Landmark
- Empire Building - also a New York City Landmark
- Equitable Building - also a New York City Landmark
- Trinity Church - also a New York City Landmark
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building - also a New York City Landmark
- Liberty Tower - also a New York City Landmark
- New York Chamber of Commerce Building - also a New York City Landmark
- Wallace Building - also a New York City Landmark
- American Stock Exchange Building
- The House of Morgan - also a New York City Landmark
- Federal Hall National Memorial - also a New York City Landmark
- Bank of the Manhattan Company Building - also a New York City Landmark
- Bank of New York Building
- Merchants Exchange Building - also a New York City Landmark
- No. 63 Wall Street
Two further buildings within the Wall Street Historic District are individually listed on the New York State Register of Historic Places, but not the NRHP. These are the Trinity Building and the U.S. Realty Company Building. Both of these are also New York City Landmarks.
A number of additional buildings within the district are listed as landmarks by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission but not by the NRHP or New York State Register of Historic Places. These are: Delmonico's, the Bowling Green Offices Building, the Cunard Building, the Standard Oil Building, the American Express Building, City Bank Farmers Trust Building, 90 Maiden Lane, the Down Town Association, the Cocoa Exchange, the Irving Trust Company Building, the Bankers Trust Building, and the J. & W. Seligman & Co. Building. The district's street pattern is also a New York City Landmark.
