Conwell Coffee Hall by Sleep No More

 restaurant, interesting place, movie / film / TV location

The lower level of the City Bank-Farmers Trust Company building was designed by Cross & Cross to house branches of three tenant banks: City Bank-Farmers Trust, National City Bank, and the Canadian Bank of Commerce. A grand two-story rotunda greeted visitors as they entered the building from William Street to the City-Bank Farmers Trust branch or down a set of stair to the National City Bank. A separate entrance on Hanover Street entrance was the Canadian Bank of Commerce. The basement held 16 bank vaults in its lower five stories which serviced the banks and a reservoir of liquid soap that pumped to each washroom fixture in the building.

The City-Bank Farmers Trust rotunda led to a lofty, barrel-vaulted ceiling paneled in English brown oak which was used by its senior officers, above were the bank's executive offices which were designed to resemble a country home. Woods like English oak, knotty pine, teak, walnut, blackwood, cocoawood and prima vera, were in the panelling and decoration of offices.

The Canadian Bank of Commerce branch was clad in margely marble with a map of Canada behind the teller's counter (it was later replaced with a WPA-esque mural depicting New York City scenes). It also had space for its executive offices which were clad in wood.

The Canadian Bank of Commerce side was recently used as a filming location for the USA series "White Collar" S1E1 as Peter Burke tries to get into a safe held by The Dutchman. It was also used as a filming location for "Madam Secretary" and "Gossip Girl. There are plans for the New York City-based group, Emursive, to lease the banking halls as part of an interactive, site-specific theater space after being vacant save for film production activity for many years.

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