63 Nassau Street

63 Nassau Street

63 Nassau Street is a landmark building on Nassau Street (Manhattan) in New York City, constructed in 1859. It is an early example of cast-iron architecture by New York architect James Bogardus. In its early days it was occupied by jewelers and watchmakers. [Cast-iron builder, Iron-clad renown, by Christopher Grey, New York times, Sept. 21, 2008]

The three-bay wide building features delicately fluted cast-iron columns topped with Corinthian capitals at the second floor level, and an arcade three stories high from the third to fifth floors. Between the second and third floors the building features a series of wreath-encircled portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin cast, like the rest of the facade, in iron. [Margot Gayle, Cast Iron Architecture in America, Dover Books, 1974] The two portraits of Washingotn are missing from the facade as of 2008. [Cast-iron builder, Iron-clad renown, by Christopher Grey, New York times, Sept. 21, 2008]

Similar portraits once appeared on two other Bogardus buildings, the Baltimore Sun building in Baltimore, Maryland, and the New York building of Harper & Brothers. Both of those buildings have been torn down. [Margot Gayle, Cast Iron Architecture in America, Dover Books, 1974]

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