Manhattan · NYC landmark
Kitchen, Montross & Wilcox Store
85 Leonard Street · Manhattan, New York City
A cast-iron store preserves the work of an early advocate of iron construction.
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NYFE Summary
Dry-goods merchants leased this site as Leonard Street changed from a residential block into a commercial district. An early plaque credited the facade’s constructor with pioneering iron buildings.
Slender columns span two floors at a time, ending in arches above the windows. Rope patterns, leaves, lions’ heads and small human faces fill the ironwork. These fine details would have been harder and more costly to carve in stone.
NYFE summary from the official history and visitor sources linked below.
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