Baltic Exchange buillding in London was completed in 1903. Source_Salvo News

The building almost found a new home on Long Island, New York and in Battersea development in London. Thus, it was an unlikely intervention by Estonian businessmen that saved the dismantled structure from its final demise of being sold, for example, for a fireplace decor. Hence, in 2007, the sizeable delivery – forty numbered shipping containers with stairs, marble columns, telephone boxes with wooden panelling, stucco sea monsters and other details – arrived to Estonia.