ORNAMENTAL IRON WORK 



IRON 

 BALCONIES 



THE ornamental iron work was made and 

 erected by the Whale Creek Iron Works, as 

 subcontractors under Milliken Brothers, Inc. 

 This ornamental iron work alone constituted a very 

 large contract, as architectural iron, both wrought 

 and cast, entered largely into the architect's scheme 

 of ornamentation for the building. 



The high Tower of the building owes the light 

 and open '^effect of the 

 great window bays largely 

 to the use of light archi- 

 tectural iron work, which 

 was employed throughout 

 these bays to form the 

 framework of the win- 

 dows and consists of cast 

 iron cornices and facias 

 with wrought iron mull- 

 ions and jambs. 



At every 7th story 

 on each of the four fa- 

 cades iron 

 balconies 

 were erect- 

 ed, supported on orna- 

 mental wrought iron 

 brackets. Tons of 

 wrought and cast iron 

 were used in this feature 

 of the building, the setting 

 of which at such a height 

 involved some very inter- 

 esting problems for the 

 contractors. 



All of the stairs 

 throughout the building 



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 STAIR RUNS , 



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wrought iron of ornamental design. 

 As it was desired to reproduce the railing design used 

 on the stairs in the older portion of the building, 

 this design was skillfully combined with the string 

 and newel details of a newer type of design, produc- 

 ing a happy result. One of these stairs has an un- 

 broken ascent of 23 stories, and the handrail is made 

 of drawn bronze, fitted into cast bronze newel heads 

 at start and landing of each flight of stairs. 



The ornamental cast iron window work enter- 

 ing into the lower 13 stories of the building on the 



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WINDOW 

 ORNAMENTS 



Broadway and Liberty Street fronts constitutes ex- 

 cellent examples of the iron founder's art, the slender 

 round window mullions with spiral 

 fluting and the clearly defined, 

 molded facias, cornices and pedi- 

 ments with leaf and other ornamentation, standing 

 out in strong relief with the bold masonry details, 

 and enhancing the beauty of the principal facades. 



Ornamental railings, of 

 wrought iron scroll design, 

 also grace the fronts of the 

 building at certain stories, 

 that at the llth story 

 being of a particularly 

 heavy and striking design. 

 The elevator fronts are 

 all of a very fitting design 

 with their combination of 

 wrought and cast iron, and 

 indicate that much study 

 has been given both to 

 design and workmanship. 

 Most of the elevator fronts 

 had to be erected at night 

 owing to the fact that the 

 elevator cars in the older 

 part of the building were 

 in use during the day. 



The building has been 

 fitly topped off with a steel 



FLAG POLE 



tubular 

 flag pole 



extending 62 feet above 

 the collar of the lantern, 

 which is 612 feet above 

 the Broadway sidewalk. 



Owing to the fact that 

 the flag pole is set in such 

 an exposed location and forms a very dangerous 

 attraction for lightning, a wooden pole appeared im- 

 practicable and the steel construction was therefore 

 adopted. 



The pole is mounted on a steel socket set in the 

 lowermost floor of the lantern, and extends upward 

 through the top three stories, a distance of about 

 30 feet. Inside of the building the pole measures 

 10 1 inches in diameter and it tapers from the collar 

 down to 5^ inches at the tip. The joints were shrunk 

 and caulked and were tested so as to be sure that 



