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5 drawings
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10 b&w photos
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7 data pages


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TITLE:
E. V. Haughwout & Company Building, 488-492 Broadway, New York, New York County, NY

CALL NUMBER:
HABS NY,31-NEYO,70-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 5  (18 x 24 in.)
Photo(s): 10   (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 6 plus cover page

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Gaynor, John P.
Badger, Daniel

NOTE:
Survey number HABS NY-5459

Building/structure dates: 1857 initial construction

Significance: Built in 1857, the E.V. Haughwout & Company Store is architecturally one of the most important of New York's cast iron buildings. The architect, John P. Gaynore, used cast iron in the design for an elegant and monumental structure for a firm selling china, crystal, and silver

SUBJECTS:
NEW YORK--New York County--New York
commercial facilities

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ny0379

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. Historic American Buildings Survey, Cervin Robinson, Photographer August 1970, EXTERIOR FROM SOUTHWEST.
2. Historic American Buildings Survey, Cervin Robinson, Photographer March 1967, CORNICE AND TOP FLOOR DETAIL FROM SOUTH.
3. Historic American Buildings Survey, Cervin Robinson, Photographer March 1967, DETAIL OF BROOME STREET FACADE.
4. Historic American Buildings Survey, Cervin Robinson, Photographer August 1970, ENTRANCE VESTIBULE FROM NORTHEAST.
5. Historic American Buildings Survey, Cervin Robinson, Photographer August 1970, DETAIL OF MONOGRAM OF ENTRANCE VESTIBULE.
6. Historic American Buildings Survey, Cervin Robinson, Photographer August 1970, GROUND FLOOR CAPITAL AND STAMPED CEILING DETAIL.
7. Historic American Buildings Survey, Cervin Robinson, Photographer August 1970, GROUND FLOOR-ELEVATOR FRONT.
8. Historic American Buildings Survey, Cervin Robinson, Photographer August 1970, SECOND FLOOR ELEVATOR DOOR.
9. Historic American Buildings Survey, Cervin Robinson, Photographer August 1970, CLOCK CASE BEHIND FACADE CLOCK.
10. Historic American Buildings Survey, Cervin Robinson, Photographer August 1970, SUBCELLAR CAPITAL.

CONTROL #:
NY0379

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