bourse
In French, a building or room used for the meeting of persons who deal in merchandise of any sort; a merchants’ exchange. In modern usage, more commonly limited to the business of buying and selling of public securities, stocks, and bonds, and in this sense adopted by the Continental nations under the forms of Boerse in German, Borsa in Italian, etc., or in the unaltered French form…. Photo from Savannah, Georgia, 2013. (Sturgis, 1900)