Adrian Janes

Adrian Janes (February 4, 1798 - March 2, 1869) was the owner of the iron foundry Janes, Kirtland & Co. in the Bronx, New York, the company which created iron work for the Bow Bridge in Central Park, the railings of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Capitol dome of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

In 1821-1824, Adrian Janes and Edwin Bolles maintained a wallpaper business in Hartford, Connecticut. They hold the distinction of making the earliest known American book of wallpaper samples. The original book is now in the collection of Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts.

Adrian Janes was the founder and principal owner of Janes, Kirtland & Co. in the Bronx, New York. The company was established in 1844 at the corner of Reade and Centre Streets in Manhattan. When the order came in for the dome of the Capitol Building, however, the company saw the need for a far more expansive foundry. Thus, it moved to the area now known as the Bronx in 1857 to create the huge cast-iron dome.

Jaynes Hill is the highest point in Long Island, New York. The hill goes by many different names, but was named for Adrian Janes. After 1858 the area of Janes Hill in St. Mary's Park in the Bronx (the largest and one of the original six parks in the Bronx borough) was known for the owner of its land, Adrian Janes.

With a cast iron span of 50 feet and a walkway made of ipe (a wood in the genus handroanthus), the Bow Bridge is "like a Victorian confection reflected in the waters of Central Park's lake."

The Bow Bridge was designed during the mid-19th century by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould. The Bow Bridge was a setting for the Woody Allen film Manhattan. The bridge setting was also used in the movies Keeping the Faith and The Way We Were.

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