Broad Exchange Building

 apartment building, 1902_construction, Beaux-Arts (architecture)

277-foot, 20-story Italian-Renaissance/Beaux-Arts residential building completed in 1902. Designed by by Robert Maynicke with later alterations by Clinton & Russell as an office building. It has a 3-story rusticated granite base and a five-step-up entrance. The 14-story shaft is clad in buff-colored brick with terra-cotta trim, and the 3-story capital is clad in granite and terra-cotta and topped by a copper cornice. The main, Broad Street entrance is through a formal, 2-story tall, 2-bay wide projecting portico within which are two engaged, three-quarters round fluted Doric columns on pedestals, and a wealth of classically-inspired stone ornament, including an entablature with a frieze inscribed "BROAD EXCHANGE". The entrance on Exchange Place is largely similar in design.

There are elaborate cartouches between the 4th & 5th floors, and between the 16th & 17th. The upper crown includes three sets of double-story Ionic columns on pedestals, and decorative terra-cotta spandrels. At the time of its completion, it was the largest office building in the world. The lobby preserves the turn-of-the-century grandeur of its original design, adorned with artistic terrazzo floors, marble-pilastered walls and ornately-coffered 18-foot ceilings.

It was converted to apartments in 1998 by Costas Kondylis, and then converted again into condominiums by CetraRuddy in 2009, with 308 units, before finally being reconverted to rental apartments. The building originally had a southern wing extending into the middle of the block, but this wing was demolished in the condominium conversion, to vastly improve the infiltration of light and air to the rest of the building.