14 Wall Street, originally the Bankers Trust Company Building, stands at Wall and Nassau Streets in Manhattan's Financial District. Trowbridge and Livingston designed the original tower for Bankers Trust, and it opened on May 1, 1912. An annex by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon followed in 1933. The original tower is Neoclassical, and the annex has Art Deco detailing.
The tower rises 540 feet (160 meters), with 32 usable floors topped by a seven-story pyramidal roof inspired by the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. The facade uses about 8,000 short tons of New England granite. A continuous staircase of 531 steps runs from the third to the 29th floor, and the basement holds a vault described in period sources as the strongest in the world.
The building became a New York City landmark on January 14, 1997. Its lower stories were converted to condominiums, and the rest is office space.
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