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ID: 34
Name: 28 East 14th Street
Address: 28 East 14th Street, between Fifth Avenue and University Place
Block and Lot: Block: 571 Lot: 17
Neighborhood: Union Square/14th Street
Date: 1881 (NB 30-1881)
Architect:
Original Use: Commercial
Original Owner: Joseph J. Little
Foundry: unknown
Style: Neo-Grec
Other Information: Built as a store with offices above. W[illiam] Wheeler Smith designed several other important late cast-iron buildings, notably 34-42 West 14th Street (see) and 361 Broadway, as well as the W. & J. Sloane store on Broadway and West 19th Street, with its superb cast-iron storefront columns. Angled window bays on the facade of 28 East 14th Street are especially unusual. Building facade reappeared in 1990s after later cladding was removed.
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