26 Broadway

26 Broadway
General information
Type	Office
Architectural style	Renaissance Revival
Location	26 Broadway Manhattan, New York 10004
Coordinates	40°42′20″N 74°00′47″W / 40.70556°N 74.01306°W / 40.70556; -74.01306
Construction started	1884 1921 (expansion)
Completed	1885 (original building) 1928 (expansion)
Owner	Newmark Knight Frank
Height
Roof	520 ft (158 m)
Technical details
Floor count	31
Lifts/elevators	11
Design and construction
Architecture firm	Carrère and Hastings Shreve, Lamb and Blake
Main contractor	C. T. Wills
New York City Landmark
Designated	May 16, 1995
Reference no.	1930[1]
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Designated	February 20, 2007[2]
Part of	Wall Street Historic District
Reference no.	07000063[2]
References
"26 Broadway". Emporis. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016.

26 Broadway, also known as the Standard Oil Building or Socony–Vacuum Building, is an office building adjacent to Bowling Green in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The 31-story, 520-foot-tall (160 m) structure was designed in the Renaissance Revival style by Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings, in conjunction with Shreve, Lamb & Blake. It was built in 1884–1885 as the headquarters of Standard Oil, at the time one of the largest oil companies in the United States, and expanded to its current size in 1921–1928.

26 Broadway is on a pentagonal site bounded by Broadway to the northwest, Bowling Green to the west, Beaver Street to the south, New Street to the east/southeast, and the axis of Morris Street to the north. The first sixteen stories occupy much of the lot, with several setbacks, a curved facade along Broadway, and two light courts. Above it is a twelve-story tower topped by a stepped pyramid. The ground story has a 40-foot-tall (12 m) lobby leading to three banks of elevators. The Standard Oil executive offices on the top stories included a board room on the 21st floor.

The original structure was built for Standard Oil on the former site of U.S. treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's house. The Standard Oil Building was expanded in 1895 and again after World War I, when Walter C. Teagle bought four neighboring buildings to create a continuous lot. The building was greatly expanded in a multi-phase construction project during the 1920s. 26 Broadway was sold to another owner in 1956 but remained a prominent structure on Bowling Green. In 1995, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated 26 Broadway as an official city landmark. It is also a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places district created in 2007.