Metal is in Cohen's blood, his family having owned one of Britain's oldest foundries.
He veered across and down to an alley that flanked the building, an old foundry that appeared to no longer be in use.
Only the old foundry and company office buildings remain from the once-sprawling complex; both have been restored and put to other uses.
Those buildings belonged to the old foundry, the keystone of the Gault fortunes.
They bought into the oldest foundry in Peoria, owned by Joseph Frost.
The name of the town derives from slag (escoria) deposits from an old local foundry.
The wagon arrived on October 5, 1888 and was based in the old foundry.
The local mayor was persuaded to give Mansfeld some abandoned buildings, part of an old foundry and an empty yard.
And the old foundries cut a face and a size for a specific use.
The roof of the old foundry would provide the base for a new home made out of metal and glass.