Wrought Iron in New Orleans
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In New Orleans, Louisiana, Creole blacksmiths added elaborate wrought iron details to cottages, townhouses, and business buildings.
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.
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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, ...
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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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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.
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 ...
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.
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
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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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On a grand scale the Palais Royal was laid out in just this manner, among the first Paris hõtels particuliers having a cour d'honneur, once separated from the public street by a wrought iron grille, later by an open architectural screen, ...
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 iron ...
Stucco and stone are frequently used, trimmed with painted timbers, windows boxes, wrought iron railings and brick highlights around windows and doors.
 See also: Wrought, House, Architecture, Ornament, Victorian
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