A skilled blacksmith, he forged tall wrought-iron canopy beds for each of the three brothers and their wives.
Inside, the last deals of the morning are being done along the avenues that lead off the central market, with its wrought-iron canopy.
Continue along King William Street to Grenfell Street and turn right to reach the south end of the Adelaide Arcade, entered through a cast-iron canopy and portico with faux coat of arms.
The largest of the stained glass rose windows extends almost beyond the reach of the naked eye, and the sense of wonder is completed by Antonio Gaudí's many fanciful embellishments from the early 20th century, notably the wrought-iron canopy, symbolising the Crown of Thorns, suspended above the altar.
Even after the opening of the swank TriBeCa Grand Hotel, even under the global spotlight that followed the late John F. Kennedy Jr., who lived on North Moore Street, TriBeCa is still small town -- albeit a town that is industrial at its Belgian-block, iron-canopy core, where residents fight for every inch of lawn and garden.
With assistance from Rowland Mason Ordish, Barlow also designed the arched, cast iron station canopy which spans 240 feet across the platforms without intermediate support – then the widest of its kind in the world.
His stunning night paean to the RCA Building, a streamlined silver fantasy looming behind the dark bulk of St. Patrick's Cathedral, graced the cover of the Rainbow Room menu in the 1930's and 40's; his view of the Empire State Building, inflected by the old-fangled glass-and-iron entrance canopy of Altman's department store across from it, is a suave study in architectural contrasts.
Everywhere are steel loading bays, shaftways, cast-iron flourishes, canopies suspended with large-link chains and old signs carved in stone (see Merchants Refrigerating and Ice Manufacture at No. 35).
One of the brick station buildings survives, with cheery Victorian cast iron spandrels supporting the canopy, but the waiting room and the cubby hole, where porters supped their tea, is now boarded up – although someone has taken the trouble to fill the platform tubs with violas.
