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New York Architecture Images-Greenwich Village Banco Di Sicilia headquarters |
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John T. Williams |
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BROADWAY NEAR BROOME STREET |
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1895 |
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Italianate The top three stories are a baroque delight of pilasters and spandrel arches, crowned with a broad oxidized cornice. |
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steel frame, masonry. Notice the huge pillars that support the building. |
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Special thanks to the Museum of New York, www.mcny.org |
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The Banco Di Sicilia headquarters, a grand
Italianate skyscraper built in 1895 on the southwest corner of Broadway,
rises above its more modest cast-iron neighbors on Broome Street.
Abbott's wide-angle lens and the dramatic late afternoon sun heighten
the contrast.
Street activity also captured Abbott's interest. Wine barrels for the Cannizzaro Wine Company were a sure sign that prohibition was over, and the dairy restaurant at 438 Broome Street catered to the many Jewish wholesalers in the neighborhood. Protected today by landmark status, Abbott's vista remains virtually unchanged. Wholesalers now share these loft buildings with Soho's fashionable retail shops and residences. |
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| Broome Street South of Houston Street (SoHo) offers a concentration of cast-iron facades popular in mercantile construction in the 1880’s and 90’s. Also built in that era is a striking exception — the steel-framed, 12-story building at the corner of Broome and Broadway designed by John T. Williams in 1896. The building has only three bays on the Broadway front, but 26 bays as it runs a full block along Broome Street. The top three stories are a baroque delight of pilasters and spandrel arches, crowned with a broad oxidized cornice. | |
