Built explicitly as a “monument to finance,” the building was completed in 1929, just before Wall Street crashed. Still, the renaissance-revival style structure, complete with a stunning mosaic in the entrance and a 63-foot-high ceiling in the main hall, continues to inspire. The building remained a bank for most of the 20th century and briefly became the site of an indoor flea market. In the grand tradition of other Brooklyn “temples of finance,” it has become an event space.
