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Replication & Restoration Cast iron gothic ornamentation Formerly Hecht Department Store The 575 7th Street Main Tower at Terrell Place is a redevelopment of the former Hecht Company department store into Class A office space. The architecture of this building is impressive, incorporating heavy cast iron gothic ornamentation in the ground floor spandrel panels and entrance canopy. Details like the …
Replication & Restoration Cast iron window and door frame assemblies History of the Building The Newman Library is the main library for the students and faculty at Baruch College. Located at 151 East 25th Street in Rose Hill, Manhattan, New York City, the building was formerly known as the Lexington building. Designed by architect J. William Schickel in the Italian Renaissance style, the building …
Replication & Restoration Various Projects Beaux-Arts Period Around 1830, cast iron exploded as an architectural and art form during the Beaux-Arts period. Influenced by the elaborate Beaux-Arts buildings and gardens in France, American architects found the perfect medium for their ornate designs: cast iron. Cast iron had been used earlier in smaller ornate installation such as elaborate fire backs, but …
Replication & Restoration Cast Iron Urns History of the Bow Bridge and Urns Bow Bridge is one of the most iconic and photographed features of Central Park. Built in 1862, this Victorian-era bridge spans 60 feet across the Central Park Lake and connects Cherry Hill and the Ramble. Bow Bridge gets its name from its graceful arc shape which resembles …
Old Red Court House Dallas, Texas Custom Casting / November 2006 Citation Award – AIA The John Neely Bryan Award Construction on Old Red Courthouse originally began in March of 1890. Designed in the Richardson Romanesque style by M. A. Orlopp to serve the city of Dallas, Texas, by 1920 the two prominent features of the structure (a bell tower …
Astor Place Kiosk New York, New York Cast Iron Replica of Historic Transit Station / April 1985 Working only with historic photographic images, Robinson Iron’s craftsmen designed the steel armature; detailed and sculpted ornamentation; cast and fabricated materials for the production of a replica of Heins & Lafarge’s 1904 transit kiosk. A significant application of Robinson Iron’s capabilities was the …
The Vanderbilt Canopy at Grand Central Station New York, New York Extension of Historic Entrance Canopy / 1998 As part of a master plan for Grand Central Station Robinson Iron was tasked to replicate the original Industrial Age ironwork – extending the historic landmark’s corner entry at 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue. New York City Transit Authority Beyer Blinder Belle …
Raffles Hotel Singapore Restoration of Monumental Cast Iron Sculpture / June 2003 As Robinson Iron’s first international project, the restoration of ironwork on the 1887 Raffles Hotel located on the island nation of Singapore, required extensive rendering of the ornament, sculpting clay originals and developing detail drawings. The only existing original ironwork remaining was a fragment of railing embedded in …
