The Wall and Hanover Building located at 63 Wall Street, New York, NY was built in 1929 and added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 on November 16, 2005. It was designed by architects Delano & Aldrich and has 37 floors.

The building was built, owned and occupied as the headquarters

Headquarters

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 of Brown Brothers & Co., a merchant bank

Merchant bank

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, that became Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is an American investment bank and securities firm, founded in 1818, it is the oldest and largest private bank in the United States. Brown Brothers Harriman serves clients globally in three main businesses: Investment Banking & Advisory, Wealth Management, Commercial...

, a private bank

Private bank

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, by merger in 1931. BBH continued to occupy the building, then known as 59 Wall Street, until 2003 when it moved to 140 Broadway. BBH established a family of mutual fund

Mutual fund

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s in 1983 and named it after the building, as "59 Wall Street Funds". That fund family was later renamed to "BBH Funds" in 2002 when the company made plans to relocate its headquarters.

In 2003 and 2004, the building was converted to residential rental apartments by Metro Loft Management. The leasing company rebranded the building as The Crest, named for the ornate circular depictions on the outside of the building, and began using the address 63 Wall Street. The ground floor of the building is now retail space, including the USPS Post Office

Post office

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 for zip code

ZIP Code

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 10005.

External links

• The Crest, Emporis.com
• The Crest, Metro Loft Management (requires Adobe Flash
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