Commercial Building, 102-104 1/2 East Main Street, Madison, Jefferson County, IN
Summary
Significance: The Foster Building was erected ca. 1860-70 and has the best cast-iron facade of Madison's late nineteenth-century commercial architecture. Most of the city's five-block commercial row development is finished with sheet-metal and cast-iron facades. This structure, however, stands out as the most ornate and finest in design.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-32
Survey number: HABS IN-86
Building/structure dates: ca. 1870 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Foster, Harvey B
Location
North Madison (Madison, Ind.), 38.71422, -85.47362
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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