Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
Mock-up of cornice on roof of building, construction of the McKim Building
McKim, Mead & White · [ca. 1890]
Test of a plaster mock-up of cornice to check the scale of the decorative work. Cornice supported by two men on the roof of the Colwell Iron Works building in New York, chosen for its height. Building painted with "Lewis Colwell's 260 Iron Works 258," right, and "[S]ugar House Plantation Machinery," left-center.
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