Exchange
Cotton Exchange
building type
involved parties
George B. Post (architecture)
address
- United States of America
- Staat
- New York
- state
- New York City
- city
- Manhattan
- district
- William Street; Beaver Street
- street
map/aerial view
year/condition
destroyed
time line
| period | description |
|---|---|
| until 1885 | planning and construction period |
description
text
The founding of the New York Cotton Exchange in 1870 marked the end of the factorage system for marketing America's most important 19th-century domestic crop and the beginning of today's futures trading system for buying and selling commodities.
keywords
awards
| year | description | section | level |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | National Historic Landmark |
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