The Equitable Trust Building (also known as the Broad and Locust Building) is a historic commercial
skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...
located at 1405 Locust Street in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Description and history
Situated three blocks south of
Philadelphia City Hall
Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of the City of Philadelphia. Built in the ornate Second Empire style, City Hall houses the chambers of the Philadelphia City Council and the offices of the Mayor of Philadelphia. It ...
designed by
Horace Trumbauer. Trumbauer designed the 21-story building in 1925 after completing a similarly styled residential building, the
Chateau Crillon Apartment House
The Chateau Crillon Apartment House, also known as the Cohen Apartment House and the Rittenhouse 222 Apartments, is a historic high-rise building in the fashionable Rittenhouse Square section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
The 27-s ...
on
Rittenhouse Square for the owner of the
Equitable Trust Company
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., doing business as Chase Bank or often as Chase, is an American national bank headquartered in New York City, that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of the U.S. multinational banking and fina ...
, Louis Cahan.
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The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1986.
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See also
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Center City, Philadelphia
References
{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Commercial buildings completed in 1925
Gothic Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
Skyscraper office buildings in Philadelphia
Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia
National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
Horace Trumbauer buildings