1 Wall Street Building

The 1 Wall Street Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker, and built between 1929 and 1931 in New York, NY.

1 Wall Street Building is not the only name you might know this building by though. It is common for companies to want to attach their names to iconic buildings when they move in, or for the general public to come up with nicknames, and this one is no exception. The 1 Wall Street Building is also known, or has been known as, Irving Trust Company Building, Bank of New York Building, or BNY Mellon Building.

Its precise street address is 1 Wall Street, New York, NY. You can also find it on the map here.

The 1 Wall Street Building is a structure of significant importance both for the city of New York and the United States as a nation. The building embodies the distinctive characteristic features of the time in which it was built and the Art Deco style. Because of that, the 1 Wall Street Building was officially included in the New York Register of Historic Places on March 6^th 2001.

The building has been restored 2 times over the years to ensure its conservation and adaptation to the pass of time. The main restoration works happened in 1965 and 2021.

Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

That being said, architecture is a complex discipline involving many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but here is a list of the people we do know also played their part in making the 1 Wall Street Building a reality:

• Marc Eidlitz as the Main Contractor
• Irving Trust as the Main Developer

The 1 Wall Street Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The 1 Wall Street Building was completed in 1931, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

The 1 Wall Street Building uses a frame structure made of steel columns and concrete slabs.

A frame structure uses a combination of beams and columns to sustain the building's weight. The walls in this case are non-load bearing, which allows for more flexibility when distributing the interior spaces.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features granite at the base of the building.