Gillender Building - 1900
Gillender Building, New York City, copyright 1900. Photochrom print in album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The Gillender Building stood on the northwest corner of Wall Street and Nassau Street, the same site of the old banking house of Jay Cooke & Company, that closed its doors in the Financial Panic of 1873. Gillender Building was 20 stories high. It was completed in 1897 and demolished in 1910. It was replaced by the Bankers Trust Company Building (14 Wall Street). The Federal Hall is across Nassau Street.
The Wilks Building on the corner of Broad St. was completed in 1890 and it was demolished in 1920.
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Gillender Building - 1900
