Brooklyn Trust Company Building
138 Pierrepont Street | also 134 Pierrepont Street, 177 Montague Street | Brooklyn Heights | built 1916
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- 1873
The Brooklyn Trust Company moves into George Taylor's old house at Clinton and Montague Streets
The house on the corner had been built in the 1850s as the home of politician George Taylor. The bank, chartered in 1866, made it its headquarters in 1873 and expanded it several times. The current building was constructed on the corner from 1913 to 1916.
“…house, which had been built in the 1850s as the residence of politician George Taylor and became the bank's headquarters in 1873…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1913
The Brooklyn Club agrees to sell its Pierrepont Street clubhouse to the bank
After months of secret negotiations, the club agreed to sell its clubhouse at Clinton and Pierrepont Streets, next to the bank, for $115,000. The deal required the bank to begin building on the site within two years and gave the club two stories in the new building. The sale more than doubled the bank's holdings in the area.
“The Brooklyn Club agreed in November 1913 to sell its clubhouse at Clinton and Pierrepont Streets, adjacent to the Taylor house, to the Brooklyn Trust Company for $115,000…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1915
Law firm Cullen and Dykman moves into the building's upper floors
The firm moved into the Brooklyn Trust Company Building in 1915. It kept its offices on the upper floors through most of the 20th century while also opening new locations across Long Island. In 1987 it renewed its lease on those floors for twenty years.
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- 1916
York and Sawyer's Italian Renaissance bank opens its Montague Street half
The bank was designed by York and Sawyer on the model of the Palazzo della Gran Guardia in Verona, and Marc Eidlitz & Son was the contractor. The bank moved into the Pierrepont Street half on September 7, 1915, and the Montague Street half opened on September 13, 1916 despite a labor strike. Completion coincided with the bank's 50th anniversary.
“Despite a labor strike during construction, the Montague Street half opened on September 13, 1916.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1996
The city designates the bank building and its interior as a landmark
The Landmarks Preservation Commission held hearings in June 1993 on this and three other Brooklyn banks, along with two in Manhattan. It designated the exterior and the interior of the Brooklyn Trust Company Building on June 25, 1996. The National Register of Historic Places followed in 2009.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2015
Upper floors become twelve condominiums, one with a hidden panel for the bank's clocks
The Stahl Organization converted the upper floors to condominiums, and sales of the 12 units began in May 2015. Because the building is a landmark, the residences are suspended from trusses on the top story. In one apartment a concealed panel in the master bedroom leads to the controls of a banking-hall clock, and the bank's manager had to enter the apartment twice a year to reset the clocks.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Brooklyn Trust Company BuildingWikipedia
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