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Tour: Margot Gayle's Tribeca – A Victorian Society New York New-Member-Orientation Walking Tour (so join up!)

October 19, 2014 @ 10:00 am

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This tour of Tribeca, focusing on its many cast-iron wonders, is offered to newly minted members of the Victorian Society New York (the local chapter of the Victorian Society in America) which was founded in 1966 in the West 9th Street kitchen of legendary preservation advocate Margot Gayle. Without Margot’s efforts, Tribeca might not be the protected historic neighborhood it is today. Though the tour is by invitation only, there’s a simple way to cadge an invitation: join Victorian Society New York!

I first led a tour of cast-iron architecture in Tribeca in the late 1970s, as one of the volunteer guides for Margot’s “Friends of Cast-Iron Architecture.” This walk retraces the steps of that tour, with special focus on the work of James Bogardus – one of Margot’s special interests – as well as facades cast by D.D. Badger’s Architectural Iron Works, the only major 19th-century iron foundry whose catalog still exists. For more, see the article in Panorama, the chapter’s newsletter, describing the tour as given in November 2011.

For more information, and to sign up, see the VSNY web site.

Details

Date:
October 19, 2014
Time:
10:00 am
Website:
http://www.vicsocny.org/calendar.htm

Organizer

Victorian Society New York
Phone
(212) 886-3742
Email
info@vicsocny.org
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