Wrought Metal Work in America 
WROUGHT IRON ENTRANCE DOORS 
RESIDENCE OF MRS. ALFRED CORNING CLARK, NEW YORK 
Ernest Flagg, Architect Wm. H. Jackson Company, New York 
this country. Used as a railing for the high- 
stoop New York house, wrought metal is very 
effective, while multitudinous examples exist 
of the door grille. The several forms of grille 
modified to suit the exigencies of American 
banking practice, and the growing use of 
the wholly sensible marquise show that dec¬ 
orative wrought metal as an adjunct to fine 
architecture in America has come to stay. 
It is not a fashion, but an acquirement on 
our part of a taste and a recognition of a 
need coeval with history and even antedating 
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