Prudential Financial, formerly Prudential Insurance, is a large financial services company based in Newark, New Jersey, United States. The company has constructed a number of buildings to house its offices in downtown in the Four Corners district.[1] In addition to its own offices, the corporation has financed large projects in the city, including Gateway Center and Prudential Center. Prudential has over 5,000 employees in the city.
Prudential Home Office
The four original Prudential headquarters buildings were built from 1892 to 1911 as early examples of steel framing in Newark, clad in gray Indiana limestone with Romanesque styling, the work of George B. Post.[4][5] The four buildings were known as the Main Building, the North Building, the West Building, and the Northwest Building, and were the tallest in the city at the turn of the 20th century.