Kimball & Thompson designed the Beaux-Arts office building at 64 Broadway, with Charles Sooysmith as structural engineer. It was built from 1893 to 1894 and had 18 floors, rising 348 feet (106 m). It was the first Manhattan skyscraper to pass 330 feet (100 m), and the tallest in New York City from 1894 to 1899, until the Park Row Building surpassed it. The article does not state the original client or materials.
The Manhattan Life Insurance Company owned it until it sold the building in 1926. It was extended north in 1904, from 64 and 66 Broadway to 68 and 70. Central Union Trust Company later used it as headquarters.
It was demolished in 1963 or 1964, depending on the source, to make way for an annex to 1 Wall Street, completed in 1965.
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