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A landmark publication that invites New Yorkers to look up-and marvel at some of the city's greatest unsung architectural treasures, its sheet-metal cornices. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the facades of many, if not most, residential and commercial buildings in America's cities were crowned with sheet-metal cornices. These offered certain practical advantages over stone or brick cornices-for example, they were lighter and safer to install-but the easy workability of sheet metal

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A landmark publication that invites New Yorkers to look up-and marvel at some of the city's greatest unsung architectural treasures, its sheet-metal cornices. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the facades of many, if not most, residential and commercial buildings in America's cities were crowned with sheet-metal cornices. These offered certain practical advantages over stone or brick cornices-for example, they were lighter and safer to install-but the easy workability of sheet metal

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