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.
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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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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
___________________________ 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