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From the buttonwood tree on Wall Street to the Art Deco towers of Chicago, North American exchanges embody the New World's commercial ambition.
| Exchange | City | Country | Established | Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charleston Exchange and Custom House | Charleston | USA | 1771 | Georgian-Palladian |
| Philadelphia Stock Exchange | Philadelphia | USA | 1790 | Beaux-Arts |
| New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) | New York | USA | 1792 | Neoclassical |
| Baltimore Merchants Exchange | Baltimore | USA | 1820 | Greek Revival / Federal |
| New York Merchants' Exchange | New York | USA | 1827 | Greek Revival |
| Merchants' Exchange Building | Philadelphia | USA | 1832 | Greek Revival |
| Boston Stock Exchange | Boston | USA | 1834 | Richardsonian Romanesque |
| Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Building | Cincinnati | United States | 1839 (institution); 1889 (Richardson building) | Richardsonian Romanesque |
| Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) | Chicago | USA | 1848 | Art Deco |
| Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) | Toronto | Canada | 1852 | Art Deco |
| Kansas City Board of Trade | Kansas City | United States | 1856 | Chicago School / Richardsonian Romanesque commercial |
| Milwaukee Stock Exchange | Milwaukee | USA | 1858 | Second Empire / Victorian Italianate |
| Pittsburgh Stock Exchange | Pittsburgh | USA | 1864 | Victorian / Beaux-Arts |
| San Francisco Grain Exchange | San Francisco | USA | 1869 | Varied |
| New Orleans Cotton Exchange | New Orleans | USA | 1871 | Second Empire, Renaissance, Italianate |
| Mobile Cotton Exchange | Mobile | USA | 1871 | Victorian Commercial |
| Augusta Cotton Exchange Building | Augusta | United States | 1872 (exchange organized); 1886 (building) | High Victorian (Second Empire / Queen Anne) |
| Galveston Cotton Exchange | Galveston | USA | 1873 | Richardsonian Romanesque / Victorian Commercial |
| Richmond Stock Exchange | Richmond | USA | 1870s | Unknown |
| Memphis Cotton Exchange | Memphis | United States | 1873 (institution); building 1924-25 | Neoclassical / commercial Cotton Row vernacular |
| Montreal Stock Exchange | Montreal | Canada | 1874 | Beaux-Arts / Classical Revival; International Style (1965 tower) |
| Houston Cotton Exchange | Houston | USA | 1874 | Victorian Romanesque |
| Oil City Oil Exchange | Oil City | United States | chartered 1874; exchange building opened 1878 | Late-19th-century commercial Italianate / "modern" brick-and-stone commercial |
| New Orleans Stock Exchange | New Orleans | USA | 1875 | Varied |
| Savannah Cotton Exchange | Savannah | USA | 1876 | Romanesque Revival |
| Toledo Produce Exchange | Toledo | USA | 1876 | Early Chicago School commercial |
| Minneapolis Grain Exchange | Minneapolis | USA | 1881 | Renaissance Revival |
| Denver Stock Exchange | Denver | USA | 1881 | Beaux-Arts |
| Chicago Stock Exchange | Chicago | USA | 1882 | Chicago School |
| Louisiana Sugar Exchange | New Orleans | USA | 1882 | Traditional commercial |
| San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange | San Francisco | USA | 1882 | Neoclassical / Art Deco Moderne |
| Washington Stock Exchange | Washington | USA | 1880s | Unknown |
| Boston Chamber of Commerce | Boston | USA | 1885 | Beaux-Arts |
| Louisville Stock Exchange | Louisville | USA | 1880s | Unknown |
| Wheeling Stock Exchange | Wheeling | USA | c. 1880s | Neoclassical / Doric Revival |
| Winnipeg Grain Exchange | Winnipeg | Canada | 1887 | Sullivanesque / Chicago School with Italian Renaissance palazzo detailing |
| Intermountain Stock Exchange | Salt Lake City | USA | 1888 | Neoclassical Revival |
| Hartford Stock Exchange | Hartford | USA | 1890s | Unknown |
| Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) | Mexico City | Mexico | 1894 | Mexican Modernist / Structural Expressionism (1953); Late Modern (1990) |
| Colorado Springs Stock Exchange | Colorado Springs | USA | 1890s | Beaux-Arts Neoclassical |
| Spokane Stock Exchange | Spokane | USA | 1897 | Romanesque Revival / Commercial |
| Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) | Chicago | USA | 1898 | Modern |
| Honolulu Stock Exchange | Honolulu | USA | 1898 | Renaissance Revival / Beaux-Arts |
| Cleveland Stock Exchange | Cleveland | USA | 1899 | Classical / Beaux-Arts |
| St. Louis Stock Exchange | St. Louis | USA | 1899 | Neoclassical |
| Seattle Stock Exchange | Seattle | USA | 1900 | Varied |
| Detroit Stock Exchange | Detroit | USA | 1907 | Art Deco |
| Vancouver Stock Exchange | Vancouver | Canada | incorporated 1906; trading from 1907; purpose-built 1929 building | Commercial Gothic with Art Deco massing and ornament |
| Buffalo Stock Exchange | Buffalo | USA | 1929 | Varied |
| Los Angeles Stock Exchange | Los Angeles | USA | 1929 | Art Deco |
| World Financial Center (Brookfield Place) | New York | United States | 1988 | Postmodern |
| UBS Trading Floor, Stamford | Stamford | United States | 1997 | Late Modern / Corporate |
| Equinix Financial Hub (Secaucus) | Secaucus | USA | c. 2000 | Electronic / Colocation Hub |
| NYSE Data Center (Mahwah) | Mahwah | USA | 2010 | Electronic / Data Center |
| NASDAQ Data Center (Carteret) | Carteret | USA | 2012 | Electronic / Data Center |
| CME Group Data Center (Aurora) | Aurora | USA | 2012 | Electronic / Data Center |
| American Stock Exchange | New York | USA | 1908 | Art Deco |
| Royal Exchange | New York | USA | 1675 | Colonial |
| Tontine Coffee House | New York | USA | 1793 | Federal |