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Top of the E.V. Haughwout Building by Michael Daddino Via Flickr: E.V. Haughwout & Co. was a dry-goods retailer who, in its day, was held in such esteem it supplied the Pierce and Lincoln white houses with china. The building that once housed its store from 1857 to 1870 has one New York's earliest surviving cast-iron fronts--according to historian Margot Gayle, the best--and also housed the world's first passenger elevator.

Modeled on a 16th-century Venetian library