A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century (1898)
Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC, Real Estate Record Association, Union League Club (New York, N.Y.), former owner. NNC · New York : Record and guide · leaf 482
.althaser l\reischer, a well-known manufacturer of fire-brick in Xew ^ork cit\-, invented andpatented in 1871 the use of hollow-tile flat arches between iron floorbeams. His was not the invention of a flat arch in itself, but of aflat arch whose end sections abut against rolled iron floor beams… … 476 A HISTORY OF REAL ESTATE, ceiling- at once, at less cost and with much less weight of materialthan before; the iron beams were covered in and protected from theef¥ects of fire, and the side walls had a lighter load to carrv. /ooc- It was in the U. S. Post Office building in Xew York in…
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