63 Nassau Street is a landmark building on Nassau Street (Manhattan) in lower Manhattan, New York City. Constructed in 1859, the building has one of the earliest cast-iron facades in New York City. The building is attributed to New York architect James Bogardus who pioneered the use of this material. It is an extremely rare extant example of the work of Bogardus, one of only five known Bogardus buildings in the U.S.
Until the early 20th century Maiden Lane was the center of the jewelry district and many of its tenants were jewelers and watchmakers.
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“Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind’s inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,—the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts’ shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)