15 Broad Street

15 Broad Street
15 Broad Street. The smaller building in front at the street corner is 23 Wall Street.
General information
Location	Wall Street, New York City
Address	15 Broad Street, 10005
Coordinates	40°42′23.763″N 74°0′38.1348″W / 40.70660083°N 74.010593000°W / 40.70660083; -74.010593000
Completed	1928
Technical details
Floor count	43
Design and construction
Architecture firm	Trowbridge & Livingston

Coordinates: 40°42′23.763″N 74°0′38.1348″W / 40.70660083°N 74.010593000°W / 40.70660083; -74.010593000

15 Broad Street is a former office building now containing luxury apartments, on the northeast corner of Exchange Place with entrances at 51 Exchange Place and 37 Wall Street in Manhattan. In 1931 it was one of the 20 largest office buildings in the world.

The building was built for the Equitable Trust Company and was therefore called the Equitable Trust Building. Replacing the Mills Building and another building on the site, it was completed in 1928. The Equitable Trust Co. was one of the units of the Chase National Bank organizations, one of the largest and most powerful banking institutions in the world at the time. The law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell was located in the predecessor building from around 1889 and moved out when it was demolished, but returned to the address into the newly completed building and stayed there until 1959.

The architects were Trowbridge & Livingston, who also drew plans for the Bankers Trust Co., the extension, Bank of America, and the Equitable Trust Building's adjacent J. P. Morgan & Company Building at 23 Wall Street in 1915. The builder was the Thompson Starrett Co., the agent Douglas Cruikshank.