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Colored Terra Cotta


Corikling-Armstrong Terra Cotta Company
DETAIL, MARYLAND INSTITUTE, BALTIMORE
COLORED TERRA COTTA ON
RECENT BUILDINGS
BY EVA LOVETT
As A building material, terra cotta
offers such a wide range of possibilities that its
favor with architects is constantly increasing.
Beside its plasticity, making it suitable either
for trimmings or solid work in modern building,
specially where the basis of construction is a
steel or concrete frame, it has a long list of other
virtues, which make it preferable to the stone or
brick it often displaces. The recent experiments
in colored terra cotta, both glazed and unglazed,
on the outside of buildings are a new development

PELL & CORBETT, ARCHITECTS
of its use, and furnish an interesting study to
architect and layman. Colored terra cotta, while
not a new material, is new in methods of manu-
facture, in range of color, and new in its applica-
tion to the surface of buildings in American cities.
An important example of the latest ideas in the
use of colored clay is the new Academy of Music
(Herts & Tallant, architects) in Brooklyn, N. Y
The walls of this structure, which covers nearly
a block of ground, are in two shades of cream
brick, the lighter tones below and the darker
above. The solid spaces of the wall are covered
with a diaper pattern made of bricks of the same
tint, but of a different texture, and on each is
stamped a little lyre, that despite its small size,


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