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New York Architecture
Images-Soho 109 Prince Street. |
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architect |
Jarvis Morgan Slade |
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location |
109 Prince Street. |
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date |
1882 |
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style |
Renaissance Revival |
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construction |
Cast Iron Facade |
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type |
Shop Office Warehouse |
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The
Italian clothing store Replay occupies an iron front building of great
consequence on the northwest corner of Prince and Greene Streets. The
structure was designed in 1882 by a young architect named Jarvis Morgan
Slade. How sad that the talented Slade died unexpectedly at the age of 30,
before his building was completed. With the opportunity to design for a
corner lot, Slade produced a chamfered corner entrance and defined the
building with austere banded pilasters, giving it a preeminent presence on
the street. Rising five stories high, it has ten bays along Greene Street
and five bays along Prince Street. A strong cornice emphasizes each floor
level, giving a bold horizontality to the structure. Recently, the iron
facade has been painted a beige color.
A plaque on the first pilaster of the Greene Street facade carries the name of the foundry that cast the iron: “Architectural Iron Works, Cheyney and Hewlett, New York.” It was the successor to D. D. Badger’s historic 1847 foundry, one of the earliest to erect cast–iron buildings in the United States. |
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