80l. SoHo Historic District
A.K.A.: SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District
Location: roughly bounded by West Broadway, Houston, Crosby, and Canal Streets
Built: from early 1800s to today; most cast-irons date from 1870s
Architects: multiple
National Register Number: 78001883
Listed: June 29, 1978
Visited: June 21, 24, and 26, and August 8, 2008
Additional Information: LPC Landmark Designation Report
It is affectionately known by those in the know as The Queen of Greene Street. Forget my photograph, capturing No. 28-30 Greene (Isaac F. Duckworth, 1873) towards the end of a well-deserved renovation. Instead, take a look at the cover of Margot Gayle's 1974 survey Cast-Iron Architecture in New York; see how its stern windows stare down the reader with royal hauteur, see how they're framed by a tiled mansard roof the way a ruff frames an Elizabethan head.
A former warehouse, but like the Fleming Smith, like 176-170 John Street, like many buildings in SoHo, a warehouse that got above its raisin', a building much too elegant to simply hold stuff. But what it held in its day, though, was possibly appropriate anyway: silks and ribbon and lace, fancy frills.
Location: roughly bounded by West Broadway, Houston, Crosby, and Canal Streets
Built: from early 1800s to today; most cast-irons date from 1870s
Architects: multiple
National Register Number: 78001883
Listed: June 29, 1978
Visited: June 21, 24, and 26, and August 8, 2008
Additional Information: LPC Landmark Designation Report
It is affectionately known by those in the know as The Queen of Greene Street. Forget my photograph, capturing No. 28-30 Greene (Isaac F. Duckworth, 1873) towards the end of a well-deserved renovation. Instead, take a look at the cover of Margot Gayle's 1974 survey Cast-Iron Architecture in New York; see how its stern windows stare down the reader with royal hauteur, see how they're framed by a tiled mansard roof the way a ruff frames an Elizabethan head.
A former warehouse, but like the Fleming Smith, like 176-170 John Street, like many buildings in SoHo, a warehouse that got above its raisin', a building much too elegant to simply hold stuff. But what it held in its day, though, was possibly appropriate anyway: silks and ribbon and lace, fancy frills.
Labels: Cast-Iron, Isaac F. Duckworth, SoHo
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