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New York Architecture
Images-Lower East Side Appleton
Century Croft Building |
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architect |
Stephen Decatur Hatch |
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1-5 Bond Street |
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date |
1880 |
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Second Empire Baroque |
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Cast Iron Facade |
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Warehouse/Factory |
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This fine
cast-iron building housed the watchmaking company Robbins and Appleton,
who liked it enough to rebuild it after a fire in the late 1870's. Newly
restored, the glass front of this office building gazes northward, as the
residential neighborhood leaves and printing related business follow them
to Lafayette Row.
1-5: A Second Empire classic from 1880. Robbins made watch cases and Appleton was a prominent publisher. The building now houses the Art Store. No. 5 was the site of Albert Gallatin’s home; Gallatin was Jefferson and Madison’s treasury secretary and the founder of NYU. |
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