Terra Cotta scraped off in early 1980s to its bare Iron Girders and new steel girders put in place to capture valuable Wall Street area floor space in the Court and or air shaft of ancient Skyscraper air and natural light needs.
Originally built with Astor money in 1898.
Resheathed in plastic and glass.
Age of Junk Bonds and Junc Architekture.
There was some renovations after WWII where the 11 foot high sculptures of Stuyvesant, Hudson, Governor Clinton and General James Wolfe by sculptor John Massey Rhind were removed from their third floor level height on the Broadway facade as scrap, got rebought, the first three statues were donated to Ulster County NY where they sit in parks around Kingston NY and the statue of General Wolfe was sold to a museum in Calgary Canada where it too now resides in a park there.
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