Old Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building

The Old Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building in Old Hall Street in Liverpool was a huge and superb Edwardian building^[1] designed by Huon Arthur Matear and Frank Worthington Simon, built by the Waring-White Building Company,^[2] and was officially opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales on 30 November 1906.^[3] The building cost around £300,000 build and the opening took place in the company of 3,000 guests.^[4] Its façade was in Neoclassical style, with Baroque towers at the angles.^[5] Its exterior decoration included statues. Inside the building was the latest technology for communicating with cotton trading elsewhere in the world, including telephones, and cables linking directly with New York, Bremen and Bombay.^[6] The Old Hall Street front of the Cotton Exchange by Matear & Simon in Baroque Revival architecture style was replaced in 1967–69^[7] with a modern-style façade designed by Newton-Dawson, Forbes and Tate and the former main exchange hall was replaced by a courtyard.^[5]

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  Official Opening of the Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building by the Prince of Wales (later, King George V) 30th November 1906 from "The Illustrated London News" 8 December 1906, page 850.
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  "Commerce" statue, Liverpool Cotton Exchange courtyard
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  "Navigation" statue
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  "The River Mersey" statue
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Old Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building in Old Hall Street (built 1905; largely demolished 1967–69)
Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building, Old Hall Street front
Location	Old Hall Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Coordinates	53.4090°N 2.9935°W / 53.4090; -2.9935
OS grid reference	SJ 341 908
Built	1905–06
Built for	Liverpool Cotton Exchange
Demolished	1967–69
Architect	Huon Arthur Matear and Frank Worthington Simon
Architectural style(s)	Baroque Revival architecture style
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated	14 March 1975
Reference no.	1363092
Location in Liverpool

References

1. Sharples, Joseph (2004). Pevsner Architectural Guides: Liverpool. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300-102581, p159
2. Wouters, Ine; Voorde, Stephanie van de; Bertels, Inge; Espion, Bernard; Jonge, Krista de; Zastavni, Denis (9 July 2018). Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories: Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH 2018). Vol. 1. Brussels, Belgium. ISBN 9780429013614.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
3. Houghton, Alistair (30 November 2016), "Liverpool's lost gem - why stunning Cotton Exchange facade was flattened", Liverpool Echo, retrieved 30 November 2016
4. "1830-1913 - ICA", International Cotton Association, retrieved 30 November 2016
5. Sharples, Joseph; Pollard, Richard (2004), Liverpool, Pevsner Architectural Guides, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 159, ISBN 0-300-10258-5
6. The Cotton Exchange, Bruntwood, retrieved 20 August 2011
7. Liverpool Wiki Archived 23 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine Liverpool's Destroyed or Demolished Landmarks