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109 Prince Street.

architect

Jarvis Morgan Slade

location

109 Prince Street.  

date

1882

style

Renaissance Revival

construction

Cast Iron Facade

type

Shop Office Warehouse

 

 

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The Italian clothing store Replay occupies an iron front building of great consequence on the northwest corner of Prince and Greene Streets. The structure was designed in 1882 by a young architect named Jarvis Morgan Slade. How sad that the talented Slade died unexpectedly at the age of 30, before his building was completed. With the opportunity to design for a corner lot, Slade produced a chamfered corner entrance and defined the building with austere banded pilasters, giving it a preeminent presence on the street. Rising five stories high, it has ten bays along Greene Street and five bays along Prince Street. A strong cornice emphasizes each floor level, giving a bold horizontality to the structure. Recently, the iron facade has been painted a beige color.

A plaque on the first pilaster of the Greene Street facade carries the name of the foundry that cast the iron: “Architectural Iron Works, Cheyney and Hewlett, New York.” It was the successor to D. D. Badger’s historic 1847 foundry, one of the earliest to erect cast–iron buildings in the United States.

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