This building originally housed the Young Men’s Institute, a membership organization intended to promote the physical, intellectual, and spiritual health of young working men in the densely crowded Bowery.
The five-story Queen Anne style building has a largely intact facade, which is asymmetrically organized with a recessed entry at the south bay; a rusticated sandstone base with segmental arches; a mid-section featuring giant pilasters framing a double-story arcade with recessed metal-enframed windows; and a top section crowned by a slate covered mansard roof pierced by two dormers. The larger dormer has a pediment with terra-cotta decoration surrounding the commencement date, 1884.
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SoHo (South of Houston) is known for its beautiful cast-iron buildings. A majority of the of cast-iron fronted building date from the 1870s, though a substantial number of complete masonry structures, as well as those combining masonry and cast iron, date from earlier and later...
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