1 Wall Street is a skyscraper in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York. Designed in the Art Deco style, the building is 654 feet (199 m) tall and consists of two sections. The original 50-story building was constructed between 1929 and 1931 for Irving Trust. A 28-story annex to the south (later expanded to 36 stories) was built between 1963 and 1965. The building occupies a full city block between Broadway, Wall Street, New Street, and Exchange Place. At the time of its construction, 1 Wall Street occupied what was considered one of the most valuable plots in the city. The building is one of New York City's Art Deco landmarks, although architectural critics initially ignored it in favor of such buildings as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. The original portion of the building is designated as a New York City landmark. It is also a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places district created in 2007.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1801:
Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres, naming it after the Roman goddess of agriculture and of motherly love. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_%28dwarf_planet%29
1810:
Lachlan Macquarie became Governor of New South Wales, eventually playing a major role in the shaping of the social, economic and architectural development of the colony in Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Macquarie
1960:
Three men were killed and two wounded in a mass shooting at a public house in Sheffield, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_House_mass_shooting
1994:
The revolutionary leftist Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiated twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
omnipotentiality: (chiefly psychology, uncountable) The characteristic or feeling that anything is possible, and there are no limits on what may be achieved; (countable, rare) an instance of this. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/omnipotentiality
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better. --E. M. Forster https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/E._M._Forster