In a message dated 2/26/2008 7:35:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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This is a curious snippet. Always interested in ci.
RERG 1870:  “The iron covers so generally used over the mouths of the  chutes 
leading to vaults under the sidewalks are very dangerous...soon become as  
smooth as a sheet of glass...”
 
RERG 1871:  [the Seaman’s Bank for Savings at Wall &  Pearl:]   "They have 
actually imitated in iron the rusticated  chisel-marks that are to be found on 
granite blocks! This looks to us very much  like caricaturing art...”
 
RERG 1874:  [New law requires iron shutters on business  buildings...]
 

RERG 1877:  "architects have recently sought to give to iron an  expression 
entirely and peculiarly its own.”  But “the common verdict has  been that 
these fronts are awkward, ungainly and repulsive...”
 
RERG 1881:     Protection of Iron Columns in  Buildings.   “. . . The first 
is to enclose the column in ornamental  terra cotta rings; while the second, 
and it would seem the better, is to fill  the columns with water. ."  and   “. . 
. Iron fronts, as a whole,  should be prohibited by law.  Experience has 
taught that when once a fire  is under headway in such a building, it is 
impossible to save any part of it. .  . No wooden bay windows should be permitted over 
the first story of any  dwelling. . . ”
 
 
 
 
 
 



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