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Wikipedia: 195 Broadway, also known as the Telegraph Building or Western Union Building, is a 29-story building on Broadway in the Financial District of the New York City borough of Manhattan that was the longtime headquarters of AT&T. From 1885 to 1910, AT&T was headquartered at 125 Milk Street in Boston. The building at 195 Broadway was constructed under the leadership of AT&T's president Theodore Newton Vail, who had taken the AT&T helm in 1907 and added the same title at Western Union in 1909 when that firm was purchased by AT&T. In 1912, Vail developed a two-phase plan for a 29-story headquarters building that would be constructed on Broadway on the block stretching from Dey Street to Fulton Street. The first portion of the building, completed in 1916, was an L-shaped structure at the corner of Dey Street and Broadway with an extension reaching Fulton Street.
![[Commemorative plaque]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/195_Broadway_plaque_by_Matthew_Bisanz_s.jpg "Commemorative plaque")
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![[195 Broadway on right center]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/15_Park_Row_s.jpg "195 Broadway on right center")
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