Scholastic Building
[3] Originally conceived of in his New York office, it was completed and refined by a disciple of his, Morris Adjmi.It is respectful of the neighboring buildings and pays homage to the district's cast iron architectural identity.The cast iron architecture that defines this neighborhood straddles between the classical and industrial periods of New York's past.According to historian William Higgins, "the building’s columnar Broadway façade, in steel, terra-cotta, and stone, echoes the scale and the formal, Classical character of its commercial neighbors.The rear façade, on Mercer Street, extracts a gritty essence from its more utilitarian surroundings of plain cast iron and weathered masonry.