CAST IRON!

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Cast Iron

Home About the Artist Doorways and Gateways Historic Downtown Historic Churches Christmas Eve Snow Silent Summer The Balinese Room 1900 Storm Hotel Galvez Alley Art Tree Carvings Cast Iron Panoramas Railroad Museum Galveston Harbor Glory Days Galveston Grandeur Battle of Galveston Historic Homes The Seawall	8" x 10" $12.00 Free Shipping 11" x 14" $17.00 Free Shipping 12" x 16" $22.00 Free Shipping Galveston’s late 19th century architecture is a perfect example of how cast iron was used to add decorative facades to the once no-frills commercial buildings. Cast iron was first used in Galveston in 1858, for the exterior Corinthian columns on the U.S Customs House. The Strand/Mechanic Historic District has one of the largest collections of cast-iron commercial buildings in the country. In addition to the Historic District, several of the commercial buildings on Market and Post Office also showcase decorative cast-iron embellishments. If you are interested in learning more about decorative cast iron in Galveston, you may want to read: “The Architecture of Galveston’s Golden Age: Cast Iron Facades in the Strand District” By Carol Y. Shanks, May 1998 http://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/ handle/1911/17209/1389120.PDF?sequence=1 http://www.preservationnation.org/ travel-and-sites/sites/southwest-region/ cast-iron-architecture.html