From Soho to Clinton Hill, Ironwork's the Same
We were walking down Broome Street (around Wooster) when we noticed the iron work on this street-level window and were struck by how similar it was to the iron work on the street-level windows on our brownstone (as well as many neighboring ones). Guess this must have been all the rage in the 1870s.
We were walking down Broome Street (around Wooster) when we noticed the iron work on this street-level window and were struck by how similar it was to the iron work on the street-level windows on our brownstone (as well as many neighboring ones). Guess this must have been all the rage in the 1870s.
If you poke your head around enough b’stones and other buildings you begin to notice a lot of things like that – like how many houses have *the exact same fireplaces*, etc. It’s funny because it’s just the late 18th century version of mass-produced and/or pre-fab materials – things that we in the early 21st century scoff at when they just happen to be from the same time period as ourselves. That is, of course, ignoring the issues of *quality* of late 19th century pre-fab/mass-produced v. early 21st century goods.