Lee, Higginson & Company Bank Building
41 Broad Street | Financial District | built 1929
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- 1929
Cross & Cross completes the Lee, Higginson bank building
Cross & Cross designed this 10-story Classical Revival bank building, built in 1928-1929 for Lee, Higginson & Company. It has a top-floor penthouse and a slightly curved front facade, with architectural sculpture by Leo Friedlander and murals by Griffith B. Coale.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1932
Lee, Higginson & Co. collapses in the Kreuger match scandal
From 1928 to 1932 the Boston-based firm underwrote millions of dollars of Swedish financier Ivar Kreuger's attempt to corner the international match market. When his manipulations came to light, the bank was left holding the debt and collapsed in 1932, and its partners reorganized as Lee Higginson Corporation. In 1933 the firm sold its Broad Street office building to the New York Stock Exchange.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2003
The former bank building becomes a school
For many decades after its 1928 construction, a series of banks rented space in this building. In 2003 it was converted into a school, and Léman Manhattan Preparatory School's Broad Street campus now houses its early childhood center and lower school for ages 12 months through grade 5, with many grand architectural details kept. The building's 1920s ballroom is now the school's event space.
Source: lemanmanhattan.org
- 2006
The building joins the National Register of Historic Places
The Lee, Higginson & Company Bank Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 7, 2006. The following year it was designated a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District, a National Register district.
Source: Wikipedia
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