The new building at 74 Grand Street, left, will incorporate the 1886 cast-iron facade of its predecessor, right, shown here in a circa-1940 city tax photo.

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The idea of cast-iron façades was pioneered in 1849 New York by James Bogardus. An eye-catching blend of “Victorian elegance and American ingenuity,” as it has been called, the concept ...

By 1859, in apparent need of additional space, it had contracted with Freret to design its cast-iron replacement. C. Crozier would be brought on as builder, with the local Bennett and Lurges ...

The city is insistent on saving the building’s first floor cast-iron facade, which was designed by renowned Philly architect Stephen Decatur Button in 1852. Button—who designed multiple buildings ...