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Richmond Pattern Works

100 block of West Broad Street, I think. I'll have to go back and check.

This is the maker's mark on an iron front building which most recently held the office for a Chinatown bus. Who knew? Direct to Chinatown, New York, New York. Bilingual signage and everything.

Many of the buildings in the older commercial districts have iron façes, and the façes were made right here in Richmond. Way back when, there were ironworks galore down by the river where today we have parks. There is usually a maker's mark, not usually so fancy as this one, somewhere on the façe. It's surprising how few repeats I've found. It's hard to believe there were that many different companies making façes, but I have no idea what the market must have been like.