Thank you Ken, for this info.  I am mostly familiar with cast iron as
cooking vessels, stoves and engine blocks, uses where it is not subject to
weather.  I saw one reference to painting these buildings so I guess that's
how they were protected from the ravages of weather.  It would be rather
hard to "season" a building in the same manner that I would a new spider or
Dutch oven.  Ruth




At 11:15 AM -0500 2/15/04, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:
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>> In a message dated 2/14/2004 10:07:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> [log in to unmask] writes:
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>>     This gets curiouser and curiouser, A CAST IRON building??? Only in
>>     NYC!!!!! Ruth
>>
>> *Not in the least "only in New York." There were -- and are-- cast
>> iron buildings all over...the world. And lots of 'em in New York.*
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