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30-32 Wall Street. Assay Office.

July 8, 1928

IMAGE DATE1928
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A utilitarian 12-story addition was added onto the top of the restrained Italian Renaissance style former United States Assay Office in the 1950s. Note the very finely sculpted frieze running beneath the cornice of the first story, as well as the graceful iron-work.

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