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A street in SoHo in New York City famous for its cast-iron facades. Spa Colonnade in Mariánské Lázně, 1889.Nearly every element is cast iron. Cast-iron architecture is the use of cast iron in buildings and objects, ranging from bridges and markets to warehouses, balconies and fences.
Cast-iron architecture in the United States (3 C, 17 P) V. Cast-iron architecture in Venezuela (3 P) Pages in category "Cast-iron architecture"
Margot Gayle described cast-iron architecture as her "all-consuming passion." [ 5 ] In 1970 she founded the group the Friends of Cast Iron Architecture (FCIA) as part of the opposition to Robert Moses's plan to build an expressway through TriBeCa and SoHo. [ 4 ]
Cast-iron architecture (7 C, 14 P) C. Cast-iron sculptures (27 P) ... Pages in category "Cast iron" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Columns made of cast iron were introduced in the 1770s, the first building with multiple storeys using cast iron for both columns and beams is the Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury (1797). [2] Columns were joined usually at the floor level and sometimes bolted together, [ 3 ] the longer beams were made of sections that were also kept ...
(2013) 63 Nassau Street is a landmark building located on Nassau Street between Maiden Lane and John Street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City.It was built in the Italianate style c.1844, and had its cast-iron facade, attributed to James Bogardus, added in 1857-59, making it one of the first cast-iron buildings in the city.
Badger's Architectural Iron Works sent prefabricated cast-iron elements as far afield as Havana and Cairo. [13] Under his contract for the cast iron for the first Grand Central Depot (opened 1871), he erected the second-widest cast-iron span in the world at the time; the train shed was erected rapidly through the use of a traveling stage, upon ...
Built in 1857 to a design by John P. Gaynor, with cast-iron facades for two street-fronts provided by Daniel D. Badger's Architectural Iron Works, [2] it originally housed Eder V. Haughwout's fashionable emporium, which sold imported cut glass and silverware as well as its own handpainted china and fine chandeliers, [2] [3] and which attracted ...