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Prominently situated on a comer site, the 287 Broadway Building is notable for its combination of the' ltalianate and French Second Empire styles as executed in cast iron, and one of the few surviving examples in New York City. Erected in 1871-72 for the estate of Stephen Storm, a prominent grocer ac'1d tobacco merchant, this bank and office

The building was designed. by John B. Snook, one of the most prominent New York architects of the time. The prestige of the builcting was indicated both by the :ma.nsard roof and an early otis passenger elevator. The cast-iron facades on both Broadway and Reade Street feature large round-arched windows sepa.rated by Ionic columns at the second story and by corinthian above, each story crowned by a cornice. The high mansard roof, topped by lacy iron cresting, retains its original slate shingles and is pierced by dormers with segmental pediments and round-arched wWows. 'Ihis building graphically illustrates the transformation of lower Broadway in the 19th century fram a residential bou.levard into the city's commercial center

The architectural treabnent of cast-iron facades went through several distinct phases before the material finally fell from favor towards the end of the century. 6 Early in its 19th-century commercial use cast iron was adopted by the architectural profession and began to reflect the Italianate style prevalent among commercial buildings .in the 1850s. A series of cast-iron "palazzill were prcduced, often painted white to imitate marble. In New York these included the cary Building (King & KellLnl1, 1856-57) at 105-107 Chambers street, and the Haughwout store (John Gaynor, 1856) at 488 Broadway, roth designated. New York city I..andrnarks. These buildings, as well as the majority of Italianate cast-iron buildings in New York, were used for mercantile purposes.

In the late 1860s and early 1870s, cast-iron buildings began to be executed in the recently imported French Second Empire Style, with its most obvious feature the Ir6nsard roof. In addition to mercantile buildings, like the Lord & Taylor store (James H. Giles, 1869) at 901 Broadway, a designated New York City landmark, it also appeared in other prestigious buildings like hotels (the Gilsey House, 1200 Broadway, Stephen Decatur Hatch, 1869-71, a designated Ne'iil York City Landmark), insurance company buildings (New York Life, 346 Broadway, 1870, Griffith Thomas, demolished ), and office buildings such as 287 Broadway.

The New Building application for 287 Broadway was filed in March of 1871, with James B. Snook as architect and the Estate of Stephen stonn as owner. construction began two months later. Snook's design as filed was for an ltalianate four-story building with a basement, with two cast-iron facades and brick side walls tenninating in a flat tin roof. The ironwork was by Jackson Burnett & Co. The application stated that the building was to be used for banking rooms and offices. 7 Shortly after, an a:me.ndment to the application changed the roof to mansard and added an otis elevator; both features enhanced the prestige of the building for its intended use.8

The plans for the building indicate an areaway on Broadway and Reade Street, with steps down from the street level to a side entrance, as well as steps to the Ir6in entrance on Broadway. 9 To the north of the stoop on the basement level (now the first story), the Broadway facade featured paired doors with single transoms capped by flattened arches. These arches continue on the Reade Street facade. Early tenants included the Union and Pacific Railroad Company (later the Union Pacific Railroad), and office supply concerns.

Jackson, Burnet & Co., manufacturer of the ironwork for 287 Broadway, began as the G.R. Jackson Company, listed in 1840 as manufacturers of iron fasteners with a factory at 201 centre street. The finn later changed its name to George R. Jackson, Burrlet & Co. and opened a factory at 337 East 13th Street and Avenue c, manufacturing II iron buildings, wrought and castiron railings...roofsI and iron stairs." By the early 1870s the firm became the Excelsior Iron Works under the management of Jackson, B.lrnet & Co. It maintained the original factory at 201 Centre Street as a branch office. By the 1880s the finn name was changed to the Atlantic Iron Works under the management of Burnet & Co. Examples of iron-fronted buildings by the Atlantic Iron Works include 268 canal street (1886, lansing C. Holden) and 485 Broome street (1872, Elisha sniffen) in the Soho-cast Iron Historic District. By 1890 the firm was no longer in business.

This six-story Italianate/Second Empire building, located on the southwest corner of Broadway and Reade streets, extends twenty-five and 1/2 feet along Broadway and ninety-six feet along Reade Street. Faced in cast iron, the building is crowned by a mansard roof with slate shingles, pie

WHO IS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA?
2008, the left wing and the Corporate Mainstream Media (CMM) fell head over heels in love with a cool, charming, and attractive smooth talker. His social security number (one of several, incidentally) identified him as Barack Hussein Obama. Over the next four years, he would repeatedly lie to, cheat on, and deceive his liberal lovers as they closed their eyes and ears to the truth, refusing to recognize the shameless, deviously calculated, and treacherous propaganda seeping from the White House.

GOD HELP AMERICA, IT’S TIME FOR A SEPARATION
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October 28, 2011
Who is Barack Obama?
By Mondo Frazier
There are so many things the public does not know about the man who sits in the White House. Who is Barack Obama? In my search to find out the answers I embarked on a journey that has lasted three years and counting -- and nearly made my head explode.

As usual, when Obama is the subject, Americans can't count on the progressives in the Corporate Mainstream Media (CMM) for much help. So, what's one to do? The foreign press proved helpful. Therefore, gleaned from the foreign press: a few stories which didn't rate any coverage from the U.S. CMM.

In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama went on a mission to Russia with Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN). The newly-minted U.S. senator was invited to be part of a Russian fact-finding tour that inspected a nuclear weapons site in Perm, Siberia. The base Lugar and Obama visited was where mobile launch missiles were being destroyed under the Cooperative Threat Reduction program (CTR), which also went by the name of the Nunn-Lugar program.

What happened next -- after the inspections were over -- was at the time reported by several foreign news sources but was never reported in the USA by the CMM. The Russians detained Obama and Lugar for three hours at the airport, demanding to examine both Obama's and Lugar's passports and search their plane. Some sources reported that the Russians accused Barack Obama of being a spy.

But wait -- there's more!

According to an Italian source, the Russians did not accuse Obama of being an American spy; they accused him of being a spy for the British! The report went on to say that the incident ended up involving the White House, the U.S. State Department, and military officials, along with their counterparts in Moscow.

Strangely enough, an official report from Lugar's office about the trip never mentioned the incident. Neither did Barack Obama in 2008 when he was desperate to exhibit some foreign policy chops.

One other oddity: in the fall of 2008, Obama admitted on his Fightthesmears.com site that he had held dual citizenship with both the United States and Great Britain (the site explained that this was due to Barack Obama, Sr. being a foreign national) until 1982. Did the Russians know something about Obama's citizenship in 2005 that ordinary Americans don't know in 2011?

Another story no one has seen fit to ask about: Obama's Most Excellent Pakistani Adventure.

In the summer of 1981, 20-year-old Barack Obama embarked on a two-week trip to Pakistan. At least what little reporting that has been done claimed the length of the trip was two weeks. The only proof that the trip didn't turn into a longer stay is that we (supposedly) have records which show that Barack Obama enrolled at Columbia University later that same summer. Of course, the public hasn't seen those records, but that's what we've been told. Anyone in doubt will be directed to Obama's autobiography, Dreams from My Father.

Obama clearly gave the impression in DFMF that he was this penniless, somewhat confused young man, in search of an identity. Obama makes sure readers don't miss the point by writing that he was forced to wear "thrift store clothing" during this time. Yet he somehow managed to find the cash to finance a two-week trip to Pakistan.

Which he never wrote about. Which in itself is odd: here's a guy who wrote two autobiographies that explored events real, imagined, and totally fictional that supposedly forged the modern-day Barack Obama from humble beginnings. That's according to the Obama NarrativeTM -- which gets most of its facts from Dreams from My Father.

Not only did a poor, nearly destitute Obama manage to afford the trip to Pakistan, but once there he somehow financed two weeks in the Lahore Hilton International. In addition, Obama was introduced to the future prime minister and president of Pakistan -- and went bird-hunting with him. Which the prime minister mentioned in the Pakistani press in 2008. There's so much more, including one question the CMM never asked Obama: who arranged all of this? For a 20-year-old nobody.

Another curious piece to the queer Obama puzzle is the connection -- which hasn't been made in the CMM (attention, Fox News!) -- between illegal foreign contributions to the Obama campa