Julian Price, president of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance, asked
New York City architect
Charles C. Hartmann to design his company's new headquarters, paying for the building in full because he was himself debt-averse. The corridors used "23 carloads of
marble". In 1930, Jefferson Standard gained a controlling interest in Pilot Life Insurance Co. In 1967, Pilot Life Insurance Co. and Jefferson Standard became a single entity named Jefferson-Pilot Corporation. At that time, 800 Pilot Life employees moved from several Pilot Life buildings, in
Sedgefield, North Carolina (dating to the 1920s) into the Jefferson Standard Building and its 1990 20-story addition. Jefferson-Pilot merged with Lincoln Financial Group in 2006. The Greensboro buildings remained the headquarters for the company's life insurance operations, though the company headquarters moved to
Philadelphia. In October 2009, a
limited edition cover of Acme Comics
G-Man Cape Crisis #2 showed the 1990 Lincoln Financial insurance division headquarters (formerly the Jefferson-Pilot Building), with G-Man fighting the Acme Bat. Chris Giarusso drew the cover, which recalled
Superman fighting
Spider-Man in 1976. A special appearance by Giarusso at the Greensboro Acme Comics store marked the cover's release on October 24. Also present were Gregg Schigiel (whose work includes
SpongeBob SquarePants), Jacob Chabot (
Mighty Skullboy Army),
Brian Smith (
Stuff of Legend) and
Art Baltazar (
Tiny Titans). ==Lincoln Financial Building==