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Construction began in 1939 and the building officially opened in 1941. The building land was purchased in 1937 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and was converted into an office building for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, a company later purchased by MetLife Inc. The land, before purchased by New England Mutual ...
On July 21, 2016, MetLife announced it would rebrand the business as Brighthouse Financial and on March 6, 2017 the company began selling annuity and life insurance under the Brighthouse Financial brand. [8] On August 4, 2017, Brighthouse Financial completed its separation from MetLife.
The predecessor company to MetLife began in 1863 when a group of New York City businessmen raised $100,000 to found the National Union Life and Limb Insurance Company. The company insured Civil War sailors and soldiers against disabilities due to wartime wounds, accidents, and sickness.
New England Life Insurance Company was a court case decided by the Georgia Supreme Court in 1905. It is noteworthy as one of the first explicit endorsements of the right to privacy as derived from natural law in US law.
It was designed by architect D. Everett Waid and built by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1906. The Classical Revival style building consists of a two-story section built in 1906, a third floor that was added in 1920, and two additions that were constructed in 1917 and 1927.
[30] [152] [153] While other life insurance companies, such as the New York Life Insurance Company and Equitable Insurance Company, used sculptural representations for their respective symbols, Metropolitan Life used the building itself to represent the company's work and ideals. [153]
New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, acquired by MetLife in 1995; North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company; Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; United Mutual Life Insurance Company, acquired by MetLife in 1992; Mutual Life & Citizens Assurance Company Limited, later known MLC Life Insurance and ...