The So-Ho Cast Iron Historic District Walking Tour Slideshow Presentation
Architecture -- History -- Interesting Pictures and Stories
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that join us with the neighborhoods' past - and its evolution from a middle-income artesian neighborhood, with the mansions
of wealthy New Yorkers on Broadway; to an industrial district of warehouses & factories, with upscale hotels & department
stores on Broadway; into an artistic community of artist in residence & galleries & finally into an upscale retail neighborhood
mixed with art galleries, artist & expensive residential lofts.
This is a Slideshow Presentation of So-Ho's Past & Present:
This slideshow examines the history of the So-Ho Cast Iron Historic District & you can actually see its past blend with the present
through its architecture. In the early 19th century SoHo was part of a middle-income artisan community with hundreds of
1 family (2 stories) Federal styled homes that spread across the neighborhood that is now SoHo. The slideshow presents a surviving
landmark example of one of the homes from 1825; it also illustrates a number of the landmark cast iron factory/warehouse
buildings that replaced the homes & turned the neighborhood into an industrial / commerical district - along with the newer modern
contemporary development & restoration that brought forth an era of wealthy residential & retail growth that include galleries, museums, restaurants & a never ending stream of tourist.
Highlights of the slideshow presentation::
- The Puck Building & a former chocolate factory
- Find out about Manhattan's first central police headquarters
cable cars on Broadway, the Cable Building & the church where the original John Jacob Astor was entombed - The site of Niblos' Garden where big-time Broadway shows started
- An industrial cast-iron building from 1877 turned residential (Co-op)
- The site of Lord & Taylor's Dept. Store and a picture of it.
- A cast Iron building designed by Richard Morris Hunt
- The best Italianate e Style Cast Iron Building in So-Ho, the Haughwout Bldg. where Mary Todd Lincoln did her shopping
- Bill Gates on Mercer St. - What is a cast iron building?
- The New Era Bldg. an early example of the Art Nouveau style
- See the building Houdini worked in as a teenager
- The Charles Broadway Rouse Bldg and his story
- Green Street has the highest concentration of cast iron buildings in America
- What is SoHo's Loft Law about? - The "Statue of Liberty" was here
- The site of John J. Astor's mansion where he died
- See the Little Singer Building - a small version of the (demolished) larger famous "Singer Tower"
- Donald Judd (Foundation building) - Lorenzo da Ponte - Stewart Hitch - Evolution: Natural History in SoHo
- The 3rd oldest bar in New York City and a hangout of the artist during the 1960's, 70's and 80's
- New York City's Subway Map embedded in the sidewalk.
- The architectural King of Green Street
- The Gunther Building a great 2nd Empire style on a cast iron building
- originally Fireman's Hall from 1845, visited by Walt Whitman
- The longest running landmark renovation in New York
- The Manhattan Well Murder (The Ghost of So-Ho)
- Optional: A beautiful "Grand Romanesque" style masonry building, the best architecture in SoHo
- A Federal-style house from 1818 now a restaurant / bar since mid 19th century
- Originally: Engine Co. 13, New York City Fire Dept. 1881 now a retail store
Licensed New York City guide, with over 30 years experience researching, creating and leading walking tours that focus on the
history and architecture of Manhattan's many diverse neighborhoods.
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