THE NEW EQUITABLE LIFE BUILDING.

Jan. 22, 1875, New York Times,

THE NEW EQUITABLE LIFE BUILDING.

More than six or seven years ago it was believed by some that the financial centre of the City would be changed from Wall street to the vicinity of the City Hall Park, but the erection of a large number of very substantial and commodious buildings in Wall street and its immediate vicinity, the permanent location of the Stock Exchange, the purchase by the United States of the Assay Office and the Sub-Treasury, the establishment of the New-York Clearing House one block from the centre of Wall street, have settled this matter for the future. The proposed building on the present location of the Post Office as a common exchange for all the commercial interests of the City, the extension of the new Equitable Building---itself one of the most superb and well-arranged structures for business purposes---all contribute to make this locality the permanent financial centre. Within a radius of a few hundred feet from the corner of Pine and Nassau streets will be found more corporations and institutions representing financial strength than in any part of this or any city upon this Continent. The new building of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States is fast approaching completion. Favorably situated, with its three entrances on Broadway, Cedar and Pine streets, the latter entrance one block from the heart of Wall Street, it embraces perhaps greater advantages than any other commercial building in the City, offering, by means of its six elevators, unequalled facilities for lawyers, who occupy almost exclusively its upper stories. The corporations who have occupied its first story and basement are prosperous and are extending their quarters. The German-American Bank will occupy a large banking-room in the rear, admirably lighted and far more spacious than their present one. The Hanover Fire Insurance Company extends it offices on Cedar Street. The Mercantile Trust Company, whose business is rapidly increasing, stretch their offices and safe deposit vaults more than fifty feet further on Cedar Street.

The citizens of Chicago and Boston are alive to the necessity of real fire-proof offices than we are now, but let a great conflagration once take place in this City, destroying the books and the records of business men, with all the confusion, inconvenience, and disaster incident to such a catastrophe, and the value of entire security will then be fully felt. The great fire in Boston was stopped by the Post Office, a structure almost identical with that of the Equitable Life Building, being of the same material and method of construction. When, added to this, careful supervision and policing such as is possible in so large a building as the Equitable is carried out, every tenant may feel that as far as human foresight can reach, all avenues of safety are comprehended.

The rooms in this building were offered the first part of this week, and more than one-half of the accommodations presented have already been rented. We append herewith a list of the corporations, lawyers, and others, who have offices at present, or who are to become tenants in the building after the 1rst of May next:
Corporations--
MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY.
WM. G. LAMBERT, Vice President.
ELBERT B. MONROE, Vice President.
GERMAN-AMERICAN BANK.
H. ROCHOLL, President.
D. SALOMON, Vice President.
O.H. SCHREINER, Cashier.
AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
JAMES M. HALSTED, President.
THOMAS L. THORNELL, Secretary.
HANOVER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
B.S. WALCOTT, President.
I. REMSEN LANE, Secretary.
LONG ISLAND INSURANCE COMPANY.
B.W. DELAMETER, President.
WILLIAM W. HENSHAW, Secretary.
ST. LOUIS AND IRON MOUNTAIN RAILROAD COMPANY AGENCY.
HENRY G. MARQUAND,
D.W. McWILLIAMS,
CONTINENTAL BANK-NOTE COMPANY.
HOMER H. STUART, President.
TURO ROBERTSON, Treasurer.
JARED K. MYERS, Secreatry.
EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES.
HENRY B. HYDE, President.
JAMES W. ALEXANDER, Vice President.
GEORGE W. PHILIPS, Actuary.
SAMUEL BORROWE, Secretary.
Lawyers---
FULLERTON, KNOX & CROSBY.
BIRDSEYE, CLOYD & BAYLISS.
RUFUS T. GRIGGS.
Judge HENRY E. DAVIES.
Hon. LYMAN TREMAIN.
TURNER, KIRKLAND & McCLURE.
BELL, BARTLETT & WILSON.
ALEXANDER & GREEN.
LORD, DAY & LORD.
CHASE, BESTOW & HOLT.
IRA SHAFER.
GEO. TOMPKINS.
E.F. STILWELL.
H.F. & J.K. AVERILL.
W.T.B. MILLIKEN.
E.V.B. KISSAM.
MILLER & VAN VOLKENBURGH.
FRANCIS R. RIVES.
O.S.X. PECK.
WILLIAM S. PACKER.
F.W. PULLMAN.
GEORGE L. RIVES.
NATHANIEL P. ROGERS.
HAMES M. SLEVIN.
ARCHIBALD MACMARTIN.
E. LUTHER HAMILTON.
WILLIAM A. COOK.
FREDERIC WOOD.
DE FOREST & WEEKS.
GARDNER, WARD & WAGSTAFF.
D.A. HULETT.
E.J. GRANGER.
OSCAR FRISBIE.
A.L. SMITH.
R.L. GARRETTSON.
CLOSE, ROBERTSON, FANTON & DONNELLY.
MARSH & WALLIS.
WILSON & WALLIS.
A.G. DAY.
Architects--GEO. B. POST.
F.C. MERRY.
Builders--JAS. B. SMITH & P. RODGERS.
Staioners--CHAS. B. JORDAN & CO.
Weather Department -- UNITED STATES WEATHER OBSERVATORY -- SIGNAL STATION.
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