Talk:55 Wall Street

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Name of building
The name is a problem. Calling it National City Bank Building seems wrong, because it hasn't been a bank in years, and because it was not built to be a bank. Calling it "Cipriani Wall Street" is commercial hype, and not what it is notable as. It gets called everyting from the old Merchant's Exchange on Wall Street, to the old U.S. Customs House, to National City Bank Building. But calling it National City Bank building is sticking with an obsolete name.Elan26 (talk)Elan26


 * Then lets just call it 55 Wall Street and list the aliases in the intro. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 00:30, 6 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Its main claim to notability is that it's on the National Register of Historic Places. With that in mind, it seems best to use the same name that is used on that national register, which is "National City Bank Building." (On the National Park Service website, I also see that it's referred to as "National City Bank.") External links are here and here . I suggest we keep the article title as is, and list all aliases somewhere in the intro. There ought to be redirect pages for each of the aliases as well. Canadian2006 (talk) 19:31, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Chester Arthur
Did he work here as chief collector of the New York Customhouse in 1872, prior to his presidency? (Pavelow235 (talk) 04:23, 7 April 2009 (UTC))

Sixteen columns
Am I missing something? I see only twelve. Vzeebjtf (talk) 02:02, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:07, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

The dates are inconsistent
One part of the article specifically refers to Herman Melville as a notable person who spent time in 55 Wall Street when it states: "... writer Herman Melville worked as a customs inspector and wrote part of Moby Dick while working there".

The article also states "The United States Custom House moved into the building in 1862..."

But Moby Dick was published in 1851, presumably while 55 Wall Street was still used as The Merchants' Exchange.

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Questions
While copy-editing the article I had a few questions:


 * Does the "eight stories" include the basement?
 * In the "History" section, it says: Among the notable employees of the building during this time was Chester A. Arthur, who was the Collector of the Port of New York in the 1870s and later became U.S. president. Was Arthur based in the building while he was Collector? If not I'd rephrase to Among the notable employees of the building during this time was future president Chester A. Arthur and maybe combine it with the next sentence about Herman Melville. If so, maybe something like Port Collector Chester A. Arthur, who later became U.S. president.
 * The "History" section also says in a non-partisan vote in 1905, the House blocked an appropriation but the cited NYT article says the vote was 93 to 77, so I'm not sure whether "non-partisan" came from.
 * The same year, Jeffrey Gural, Barry Gosin, and Philip Pilevsky is there any way to describe these three people, e.g. "real estate developers" or "private investors"?

Rublov (talk) 14:58, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the copy edit and the feedback. In response to these:
 * The eight stories are only the ones above ground.
 * Yes, Arthur was collector when he worked at the building.
 * Non-partisan refers to the party affiliation of the House members; the Democratic minority leader was against the appropriation, but I don't believe the votes were strictly party line. However, it may not be relevant here so I have removed this.
 * I suppose they can be referred to as developers. Epicgenius (talk) 15:09, 11 January 2022 (UTC).