From Robert P.Winthrop’s Cast and Wrought – The Architectural Metalwork of Richmond, Virginia:
Richmond’s architectural cast iron is second only to that of New Orleans, yet it is hardly recognized. Over 130 porches and balconies, hundreds of yards of elaborate fencing, as well as scores of cast iron front buildings remain in the city today and make up the bulk of the city’s architectural metalwork.
16 comments
FB_10154866294073338
FB_606527539548625
FB_10202520247683271
FB_10154786571288518
FB_10100514579720171
FB_10208053371754654
FB_10154846943941742
FB_10209683129469368
FB_10209734991303980
FB_10210901183190074
FB_10154604568248311
FB_10206013872464487
FB_1179414115468112
FB_10153804522090834
FB_10209173955363739
Katherine Wetzel, a Richmond native and the photographer for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for decades, did a splendid job with the photos in this book. A bit of trivia from Katherine…she told me once she never could quite capture the green color in Edward Hopper’s work until digital cameras came around.