55 Wall Street

The site at 55 Wall Street, originally occupied by 18th-century housing, became the location for the first Merchants' Exchange, constructed between 1825 and 1827. Designed in the Greek Revival style by architects Alexander Jackson Davis, Ithiel Town, and Samuel Thompson, the building featured a marble facade, a grand Ionic-columned entrance, and a colonnaded cupola. It housed grain merchants, the New York Stock Exchange, and the New York Chamber of Commerce. A notable feature was a 15-foot marble statue of Alexander Hamilton installed in 1835.

The Merchants' Exchange building burned down in the Great Fire of New York. Fire swept throughout lower Manhattan. Passersby brought valuable objects from other buildings into the Merchants' Exchange, in the belief that the Merchants' Exchange would survive the fire, but the building's cupola collapsed.

The lowest three stories were built in 1836–1841 as the four-story Merchants' Exchange and designed by Isaiah Rogers in the Greek Revival style. The Merchants' Exchange building was erected to replace an older structure that had burned down in the Great New York City Fire of 1835.

55 Wall Street subsequently hosted the New York Stock Exchange and the United States Custom House until a new Custom House building was developed on Bowling Green.

Between 1907 and 1910, McKim, Mead & White removed the original fourth story and added five floors. It served as the headquarters of National City Bank from 1908 to 1961. Citibank retained ownership in the building until 1992.

The upper portion of the building was turned into a hotel in 1998–1999.

After the hotel's closure in 2003, the upper floors were renovated again and became a condominium development in 2006. The original banking room became a ballroom.