A Walking Tour of Cast Iron Architecture in SoHo

2015年12月24日 / 当代书籍 / 0 条评论 /

This walking tour will take you to more than fifty significant sites in SoHo to view iron-front buildings and details of their facades, including columns, urns, and garlands. It will reveal the distinctive use of cast iron in lampposts, vault light covers, and window enframements. A limited number of non-iron buildings are also included to demonstrate building styles and technology in the pre- and post-cast-iron era. The tour will bring you to the oldest standing iron-front building in the city, the 1856 Haughwout store, and the last iron-front building erected in 1901 at 550 Broadway. It will help you recognize iron buildings and their architectural styles and provides details about individual buildings.