Brooklyn Trust Company

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The former headquarters of the Brooklyn Trust Company (now a branch of Chase) in Brooklyn Heights, modeled after the Palazzo della Gran Guardia in Verona.

The Brooklyn Trust Company was a New York City bank that merged with Manufacturers Hanover in 1950. Their Italian Renaissance-inspired headquarters was built between 1913 and 1916 on the corner of Montague and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights.

• George V. McLaughlin was president of the Brooklyn Trust Company.
• Charles J. Mason (1900-1990) joined the Brooklyn Trust Company in 1939. He was an assistant vice president when it merged with Manufacturers Hanover in 1950. He became an assistant vice president in 1953 and vice president in 1955, retiring in 1964.
• William Boone Nauts (1903-1990) joined the Brooklyn Trust Company in 1925. During the Depression he joined the Manufacturers Trust Company. He retired in 1967 as a vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust.

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