The Crest
63 Wall Street | also 65C Wall Street, 3A Hanover Street, 85 Beaver Street | Financial District | built 1929
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1929
Delano & Aldrich design a headquarters for Brown Brothers & Co.
Architects Delano & Aldrich completed the 37-story skyscraper in 1929 as headquarters for merchant bank Brown Brothers & Co., then addressed as 59 Wall Street. The bank merged with Harriman Brothers & Company in 1931 to form Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., which kept its main offices in the building for decades.
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- 2003
Metro Loft converts the bank tower into rental apartments called The Crest
After Brown Brothers Harriman relocated to 140 Broadway in 2003, Metro Loft Management converted the vacated office tower into rental apartments. The company renamed the building The Crest, for the ornate circular emblems on its facade, and began using the address 63 Wall Street; its ground floor now holds retail space, including a post office.
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- 2005
The building joins the National Register of Historic Places
63 Wall Street was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 2005. It later became a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District, a National Register district created in 2007.
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