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Our New Offices HE firm announces that on May 1 its The site is unique from a historical point T executive offices and the New York of view. It was included in the area pro• Broad Street practice office will be re• tected from savage raids from the north moved to the new Equitable Trust by the wooden stockade or wall built in Building, 15 Broad Street. the year 1653 by Peter Stuyvesant, which The new building is in the heart of the gave Wall Street its name. Later, in 1692, financial district, opposite the New York it became the site of the Dutch Reformed Stock Exchange and adjoining the low and Church, the first church in Garden Street, massive building of the banking firm of as Exchange Place was then called. The J. P. Morgan & Company. A wing of the "first church in Garden Street" survived building extends through to Wall Street the bombardments of the Revolution and on the east side of the Morgan building, the great fire of September 21, 1776, which so that there are entrances on Broad destroyed Trinity Church and the buildings Street, Wall Street and Exchange Place. of the southern part of the city. Its reli- Bulletin HASKINS & SELLS 29

gious service to the community continued where it has grown from the modest or• until 1807, when it was demolished to ganization originated by Mr. Haskins and make way for a larger and more preten• Mr. Sells in 1895 to the international tious church building. This building be• organization which it is today. The firm came "The Second Garden Street Church," has continuously maintained an office at and so continued until the disastrous fire 30 Broad Street, since May 1, 1896, when of December, 1835, which burned out the Haskins & Sells vacated their original entire Wall Street district and spared quarters at No. 2 Nassau Street and be• nothing on Garden Street. After the fire came the first tenant in the Johnston the congregation of the ruined church Building. divided into two organizations and moved It is felt that the facilities offered by the uptown, disposing of the old site. In 1881 new quarters at 15 Broad Street, where the the site was acquired by Ogden Mills for his great business building, which, at the time of its completion in 1884, was one of the monumental structures of the city. It was this old Mills Building that the present structure has replaced. Just as its predecessor, the Mills Build• ing, in its day was regarded as one of the outstanding structures of the city, so today the new building occupying the site is regarded as one of New York's finest office buildings and architectural masterpieces. It was designed by Messrs. Trowbridge & Livingston and erected by the Thompson- Starrett Company. The outside archi• tecture is pyramidal in style and carries out the idea of ancient monumental con• struction. The Equitable Trust Building has thirty-six rentable floors above the substructure, and with its tower has a total height of 550 feet, or the equivalent of forty-two stories. Above the thirty-eighth floor are the observation and air exhaust The New Building of the Equitable Trust Company spaces, tower and tank compartment, and of New York radio-receiving apparatus. The Equitable Trust Company of New firm will have the entire 19th floor, will be York owns the building and occupies the of great advantage to the firm and to our substructure, the ground floor, and the clients. The work of the executive offices first eleven floorsabove , with the exception particularly should be better correlated of eight floors and two basements in the and more efficient in the new location, Wall Street wing, which J. P. Morgan & because the entire personnel will be on one Company will occupy. The remaining floor and in close contact with one another. floors will be occupied by prominent law The new quarters are much more pleasantly firms and financial organizations. situated than the present ones inasmuch as In moving to the Equitable Trust Build• they permit of more light and air, and an ing the firm leaves its old established home outlook over the Hudson River and New in the Johnston Building, 30 Broad Street, York Bay.