The Baumann Brothers Furniture and Carpets Store was designed in 1881 by eminent architects David and John Jardine for merchant James McCreery. Landmarked in 2008, this through-block building is considered one of New York’s great works of cast-iron architecture.

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Photo by Dylan Chandler