For both the Prudential Assurance Building and Pearl Assurance Building see the section on Alfred Waterhouse. Mersey Chambers (c.1878) was designed by G.E. Grayson as the headquarters of the shipping company Thomas and James Harrison. 27 Castle Street (1846), built for the lawyer Ambrose Lace by Arthur Hill Holme. The growth in trade with America resulted in the building of Fowler's Buildings (1865–69), Victoria Street, by James Picton, Fowler's were an American company who imported produce from America. Office buildings erected speculatively include: The Royal Bank Building (c.1837-38), Dale Street, by Samuel Rowland, the bank (see above) occupied the building in the court to the rear and let the building; The Temple (1864–65), Dale Street by James Picton; The Albany (1856–58) by James Kellaway Colling and let to cotton traders; Hargreaves Building (1859), 5 Chapel Street by James Picton; Berey's Buildings (1864), Bixteth Street, designed by William Culshaw and let to cotton traders; Rigby's Buildings (1865) Dale Street, stuccoed office building with older warehouse behind; Mason's Building (c.1866), Exchange Street East, by John Cunningham, let to cotton traders; Imperial Chambers (c.1870), Dale Street, architect unknown, in a Gothic style and with a glazed roof courtyard; Built as an office with warehouse behind, for the brewer Peter Walker, 64 to 66 Duke Street, designed by John Elliot Reeve; Central Buildings, North John Street, large office building for the period, by Thomas C. Clarke; Princes Buildings (1882), Dale Street, by Henry Shelmerdine; 12 Hanover Street (1889–90), office building with adjoining warehouse, by Edmund Kirby; Victoria Chambers (1893); 40-42 Castle Street, by Grayson & Ould. Century Buildings (1901), Victoria Street is by Henry Hartley. Boldly Gothic is Musker's Buildings (1881–82) in Dale Street by Thomas E. Murray. 25 & 27 Victoria Street (1881), by W.H. Picton. New Zealand House (1893), 18 Water Street is by Walter Aubrey Thomas. Imperial Buildings (1879), Victoria Street are by E. & H. Shelmerdine. Peter Ellis was an obscure architect and civil engineer who, nevertheless, designed the pioneering Oriel Chambers (1864) in Water Street as "one of the first office buildings to be clad in glazed curtain-walling" in its rear courtyard.