Cerro Concepción is one of the most delightful of all Valparaíso's neighborhoods, with its brightly painted corrugated iron facades and pitched roofs.

Although this example was built after the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, iron facades were a common construction technique before the fire, and many of the iron fronts melted due to the intense heat.

"If you really believed that, you would not have agreed to come along," Cadderly reasoned, thinking he had found a chip in the dwarf's iron facade.

Many layers beneath Giants Coach Tom Coughlin's foundry-forged iron facade lies a compassionate core.

Yet the man with the iron facade has, on a few rare occasions, allowed his composure to crack.

Casa Lis: Art Nouveau palace of 1905 with iron façade.

It is one of the earliest as well as one of the few remaining cast iron façades created by James Bogardus.

They are laid out at right angles to each other, with iron, concrete, and blank, white facades setting off a curved two-story gallery space.

It has trim new light-gray windows set into its ornate galvanized iron facade.

And once you enter the apartments, the views are truly stupendous: elaborate cornices, wrought iron facades, wood water towers and rooftop graffiti.