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Photographer: Jack Boucher (photo courtesy of the Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress)
Taken: 1971
Caption: View from southeast - Edgar Laing Stores, Washington & Murray Streets
Additional Description: Possibly the world's first cast iron building, built in 1849, and shown here just prior to being torn down. In addition to this building, Bogardus had also previously displayed a cast-iron building prototype in 1847.
Historic American Building Survey Notes for the Edgar Laing Stores:
Survey notes for the building, collected at the time of the building's destruction in the spring of 1971.
Submitted: January 24, 2019.
Database Locator Identification Number: p461932
File Size: 0.278 Megabytes

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