. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . ;oii s W orksare in existence to-day. Ior many years cast-iron front> were over-loaded with enrichment, but a period ensued when liiey were madel)lainer and more massive, as shown in the cut of one of the latercast-iron fronts. One of the largest of the cast-iron fronts was that erected by theCornell Iron Works for A. T. Stewarts store, Xew York, coveringthe entire block bounded bv Broadwav, Ninth and Tenth Streetsand Fourth Avenue, in size nearlv 200 feet in width, bv 328 feet inde
. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . ;oii s W orksare in existence to-day. Ior many years cast-iron front> were over-loaded with enrichment, but a period ensued when liiey were madel)lainer and more massive, as shown in the cut of one of the latercast-iron fronts. One of the largest of the cast-iron fronts was that erected by theCornell Iron Works for A. T. Stewarts store, Xew York, coveringthe entire block bounded bv Broadwav, Ninth and Tenth Streetsand Fourth Avenue, in size nearlv 200 feet in width, bv 328 feet inde]ith. In its dress of white paint, Mr. Stewart used often to likenhis iron front to ])uffs of white cli:>uds, arch u])(.)n arch, rising S3feet above the sidewalk. The first section of this store front was setup in place in 1859. Air. Stewart was an enthusiastic advocate ofcast-iron fronts for commercial buildings, believing that the materialhad in its favor unec|ualled advantages of lightness, strength, dura-bility, incombustibility and ready renovation. In 1870. wdien he 460 A HISTORY OF REAL ESTATE,. A REPRESENTATIVE CAST-IRON FRONT OF A LATER both sides is seen the older prevailing style of store fronts forcommercial buildings. BUILDIXG AXD ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK. 461 built his Womans Home on Fourth Avenue, Thirty-second andThirty-third Streets, New York, a fireproof structure, he adoptedcast-iron for the fronts, and that without any desire to save in thefirst cost of the building which he generously intended should be agift to the public. There came, almost suddenly, a change in the style of fronts;architects struck out on a new line of design, cast-iron was aban-doned except for the first story, and brick with terra cotta and lightstone for trimmings was substituted for the upper stories in frontsfor commercial buildings. Rolled iron for certain purposes rapidly superseded cast-iron, andwhen steel displaced wrought iron, and the price of rolled steelbeams chea
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