Completed 1907 Height 48 m Floors 11 Main contractor George A. Fuller | Floor count 11 Opened 1907 Construction started 1906 Architect Francis Hatch Kimball | |
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Location New York, New York, United States Similar 1 William Street - Brisbane, 20 Exchange Place, Day House, Christ Church Cathedral, Edgehill Church of Spuyten | ||
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1 William Street is an office building in New York City. Originally the J. & W. Seligman & Company Building, and later the Lehman Brothers Building, today it is the Banca Commerciale Italiana Building.
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History
The building was completed in 1907 for J & W Seligman, an investment bank. In 1928, the building was acquired by Lehman Brothers, another investment bank, which remained headquartered there until 1980. The building is now owned by Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's second largest bank. In 1996, the building was designated as a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
This building is noted in Stephen Birmingham's book, Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York: "James [Seligman] found a corner location in downtown Manhattan and rented it. 'J. [for Joseph] Seligman & Brothers, Merchants' opened for business at No. 5 William Street in 1846."
The footnote goes on to say: "On this corner, later renumbered One William Street, would eventually rise the ornate eleven-story headquarters of J. & W. Seligman & Company. This wedge-shaped building, topped by a Romanesque tower, is now a landmark of the financial district [...]".