Chamber of commerce 1599 in Marseille, France. Another official chamber of commerce would follow 65 years later, probably in Bruges, then part of the Spanish Netherlands. The world's oldest English-speaking chamber of commerce is the Jersey Chamber founded in February 1768, the same year the New York City Chamber was founded, The oldest known existing chamber in the English-speaking world with continuous records, the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, was founded in 1783. However, Hull Chamber of Commerce is the UK's oldest, followed by those of Leeds and of Belfast in present day Northern Ireland. As a non-governmental institution, a chamber of commerce has
Chamber of Commerce Building (New York City) first president of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, Alexander Hamilton, Ulysses S. Grant and many others. The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1966, and a National Historic Landmark in 1977. Original and reprographic architectural drawings for this building are held in the Department of Drawings & Archives at Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University New York's Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1768, and was the first organization of its type in North America. Its inaugural meeting consisted of twenty merchants at the Fraunces Tavern, and it was granted