Wrought Iron Balconies in New Orleans
Photo by Fiona Smallcorn
Although we use the term "French Creole" to describe buildings in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the fancy ironwork is not actually French at all.
wrought iron
A tough, malleable, relatively soft iron that is readily forged and welded, having a fibrous structure containing approximately 0.2% carbon and a small amount of uniformly distributed slag.
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Wrought iron gate ornamentation - Albright Memorial Library, Scranton, Pa.
Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens, Greece (anthemion)
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Wrought iron - Almost pure iron; it is soft, malleable, tough, fatigue-resistant and easily worked. It may be worked into shape mechanically by forging, bending, rolling or drawing. It is no longer manufactured.
Wrought iron was traditionally smelted at a relatively low temperature in the solid state to produce a spongey mass of metal called a bloom from which the impurities were driven off as liquid slag by hammering, ...
WROUGHT IRON
Heating iron until it can be hand beaten and twisted into a design.
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wrought iron Iron that is worked by being forged or hammered.
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masonry wrought to an even face and square edges.
Baluster
splat of flat cross-section and cut to a shaped outline.
For a spectacle wrought me, a gallows for rogues.
High on their shoulders they bore me to hilltop,
Fastened me firmly, an army of foes! -35
'Then I saw the King of all mankind
In brave mood hastening to mount upon me.
As paganism had done in Greece, so, and equally, Christianity wrought in the North. Primarily it was an art of church-building and adornment for the Church was the one concrete and unmistakable fact in life.
winter gardenA Winter Garden can be either (1) an outdoor area used for winter-flowering plants, or, (2) a conservatory. wrought ironWrought Iron is iron which has been worked ('wrought') by hammering on a forge (though the word is often ...
Wrought ironDuctile iron that is strong in tension, forged into decorative patterns or forged and rolled into e.g. bars, joists, boiler plates. Compare cast iron.
Hard and brittle, cast in a mould to the required shape. Wrought iron is ductile, strong in tension, forged into decorative patterns or forged and rolled into e.g. bars, joists, boiler plates; mild steel is its modern equivalent, similar but stronger.
Antepagmenta, in ancient architecture, were garnishings in posts or doors, wrought in stone or timber, or lintels of a window.
The word has also been used for the entire chambranle, i.e. the door case, or window frame.
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CRESTING Roof cresting is a lacy decorative fencing made of wrought iron, rimming the edge or peak of a roof, often seen in Second Empire (Mansard) style buildings.
Wrought iron grillwork for windows, doors, and balconies
Low round or octagonal towers with low-pitched tile roofs
Smooth or textured plaster (stucco) exterior walls and chimney finishes ...
An open area enclosed by walls or rooms, not accessible to the general public. Usually there is a wrought iron, brick, or stone fence around the areas not confined by buildings.
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Widow's Walk - Narrow platform on roof; usually with wooden or wrought-iron balustrade
Wing - Building part projecting from a central or main part
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The doors of the church of the Nativity at Bethlehem (6th century) are covered with plates of bronze, cut out in patterns: those of Sta Sophia at Constantinople, of the 8th and 9th century, are wrought in bronze, ...
On a throne hung with clouds sat the Frost-King; a crown of crystals bound his white locks, and a dark mantle wrought with delicate frost-work was folded over his cold breast.
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The devastation wrought by the Mongols in the thirteenth century and by Timur in the fourteenth hastened the decline of a city that was no longer on the main trade routes due to a change in the course of the Tigris.
Everywhere you look there is evidence of pre-Christian symbology in church sculpture; animals real and fanciful, scenes of everyday life, and the pagan "Green man" peering out from amongst carefully wrought leaves and vines of stone.
gable on the other two sides Gargoyle A grotesque spout projecting from a building to carry off rainwater Gazebo A small tower or summerhouse, usually in a garden Grille column - a flat decorative verandah support of cast or wrought ...
the center wing; 457 Madison Avenue, which occupies two-thirds of the north wing along 51st Street; and 24-26 East 51st Street at the eastern end of the north wing. The three wings enclose an elegant courtyard entered through an arched wrought-iron ...
as a fitting monument to the social, political and cultural ideals of its century. Postmodernism has taken hold, even in the heart of this great building that owes its existence to the philosophy of the Enlightenment and the changes it wrought in ...
Stucco and stone are frequently used, trimmed with painted timbers, windows boxes, wrought iron railings and brick highlights around windows and doors.
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