Bank of America Building

 office building, Beaux-Arts (architecture)

329-foot, 24-story Neo-Georgian/Beaux-Arts office building completed in 1927. Designed by Trowbridge & Livingston for the Atlantic Office of the Bank of America. It has a double-height stone-faced base and 2nd floor, above which rises a 12-story dark-red brick-faced shaft; a series of setbacks above the shaft create the effect of a tower. On Wall Street, the double-height base has three large bays set between wide, double-height piers supporting an entablature, with a simple fret design in a band course just below the entablature. The top floor of the base is also divided into three bays, with a pair of square-headed windows in the first and third bays, and three windows in the wider central bay. The brick-faced shaft is plain; though the wide piers don't extend into the shaft, the resulting 3-bay organization does. Each window has a plain stone sill. The uppermost floor of the shaft is set off by a stone band course.

The setback tower floors are adorned with plain stone pilasters in the lower portion and plain stone columns at the top, with large, round-arched windows at the very top. The long William Street elevation repeats the brick shaft. It's base is occupied by large rectangular windows. The Pine Street elevation is similar to that on Wall Street, but has an extra bay on its west end, with a secondary entrance.

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