American Bank Note Company Building
70 Broad Street | also 1 Marketfield Street, 30 Beaver Street | Financial District | built 1908
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- 1908
American Bank Note Company opens its Broad Street headquarters
The American Bank Note Company, formed in 1858 from a merger of seven firms, bought the lots at 70 Broad Street in 1906 and built its new headquarters there to plans by Kirby, Petit & Green. The five-story neoclassical building held a ground-floor bank vault and richly furnished offices for its executives. The company kept its administrative offices there until 1988, when they relocated to Blauvelt, New York.
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- 1995
Tony Goldman buys the building and opens a restaurant
Developer Tony Goldman bought the former American Bank Note Company Building for $1.3 million in 1995. The previous owners had planned to turn it into a department-store-style restaurant with several fast-food counters. Goldman instead opened a restaurant on the lower floors and put the offices of his firm, Goldman Properties, upstairs.
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- 1997
The city designates the former bank building a landmark
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission made the American Bank Note Company Building a city landmark in 1997. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places two years later and became a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District in 2007. Its Broad Street facade is faced in granite and framed by two fluted Corinthian columns.
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- 2004
A meditation group buys the building for facing due east
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Global Country of World Peace organization bought the building for $5.5 million in 2004, reportedly because it was one of the few buildings in New York oriented due east, a direction the group considered spiritually favorable. After a $4.9 million renovation, it used the upper floors as apartments and the lower floors as lecture and meditation rooms.
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