>
> *However, there was a famous case probably 30-35 years ago, in which a
> cast-iron building down at the South Street Seaport  in NY had been
> carefully disassembled and stored for later reconstruction, but was
> stolen for scrap metal and never seen again, at least not in the same
> configuration.  It would be nice to think that the original iron may
> have reappeared in the form of steel in the new building that had
> to be designed for the same site, to mimic the original CI one.
> *

The Case of the Missing Cast Iron Facade

It all got carted out to the unHamptons & Gab & Eti, with directions
from Altuna, have been busy hammering it into side panels for their
prototype UFO.
Cast iron when hammered is really hard to work with. So I told them to
lay off the ale.

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