About Cast Iron SoHo Facades
SoHo and TriBeCa hold the world's largest concentration of 19th-century cast-iron building facades — neo-Grec, Italianate, Renaissance Revival, and Second Empire — assembled from prefabricated iron bays and fluted Corinthian columns by foundry pioneers Daniel Badger and James Bogardus.
This design system reads the soot-darkened graphite iron-gray of the painted ironwork: repeated bays, cast ornament, cornices, and shadowed relief rendered in weathered monochrome, lifted only by pale stone-paint highlights.
- Origin
- North America — SoHo and TriBeCa, New York City
- Era
- pre-1900 — peak 1850s–1880s cast-iron construction in lower Manhattan
- Key figures
- Daniel D. Badger · James Bogardus
- Movements
- Cast-iron architecture · Neo-Grec · Italianate · Renaissance Revival · Second Empire
Cast Iron SoHo Facades design spec
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