55 Wall Street is a building and U.S. National Historic Landmark on
Wall Street between William Street and Hanover Street in the Financial
District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The building's facade
contains two stacked colonnades, while its interior includes a cruciform
banking hall. The building was completed by 1842 as the four-story
Merchants' Exchange, designed by Isaiah Rogers in the Greek Revival
style. The United States Custom House used the building from 1862 to
1907, before a new Custom House building was built on Bowling Green.
Between 1907 and 1910, McKim, Mead & White removed the original fourth
story and added five floors. It was the headquarters of Citibank's
predecessor National City Bank from 1908 to 1961. The upper stories were
converted to condominiums in 2006, and the banking room became a
ballroom. The facade and part of the interior are New York City
designated landmarks, and the building is listed on the National
Register of Historic Places.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Wall_Street>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1857:
A legion of Mormon militiamen completed a massacre of at least
120 California-bound Arkansas pioneers at Mountain Meadow, Utah.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre>
1893:
Swami Vivekananda gave a speech introducing Hinduism on the
opening day of the first Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda>
1992:
Hurricane Iniki, the most powerful hurricane on record to
strike the Hawaiian Islands, passed directly over the island of Kauai,
killing six people and causing around US$1.8 billion dollars in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Iniki>
2012:
The American consulate and CIA annex in Libya were attacked by
a heavily armed group, resulting in the deaths of U.S. ambassador
J. Christopher Stevens and three others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
stercoranist:
(Christianity, derogatory, historical) One who believes that the
consecrated elements in the Eucharist—the bread and wine—undergo the
process of digestion in, and eventually elimination from, the body of
the recipient.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stercoranist>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Augustine said that God created the universe new every day: and
to the living, emotional soul, this is true. Every dawn dawns upon an
entirely new universe, every Easter lights up an entirely new glory of a
new world opening in utterly new flower. And the soul of man and the
soul of woman is new in the same way, with the infinite delight of life
and the ever-newness of life. So a man and a woman are new to one
another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches
the rhythm of the year.
--D. H. Lawrence
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence>
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