250 Front Street

also 271 Water Street | Financial District | built 1900

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1853
The 1853 shopfront at 250 Front Street is among the best preserved in the South Street Seaport district
Built soon after the Novelty Bakery fire, No. 250 has a cast-iron shopfront with rosette-topped columns and a deep architrave carrying egg-and-dart molding. The landmarks report calls it among the best-preserved and most handsome shopfronts in the historic district, with the original double doors surviving at the center bay and folding doors at the loading dock entrance. The four upper floors have iron lintels and molded sills, and the roofline is slightly higher than that of its neighbor at No. 248.
“…certainly one of the best-preserved and most handsome in the District. Simple rosettes ornament the tops of the square and rectangular columns…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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