Intro
| The Tile-Making Process | Historical
Background | Ceramic Floor Tile Types | Laying
Ceramic Tile Floors | Historic Ceramic Floor Tile: Preservation and
Maintenance | Historic Ceramic Floor Tile: Damage and Deterioration
Problems | Historic Ceramic Floor Tile: Repair and Replacement | Summary | Some Sources for Replacement Tiles
There are a number of
companies that offer standard lines of reproduction tiles, while others focus on custom
work. Some new lines of reproduction tile attempt to be exact replicas of original tiles
from the late-19th and early-20th century, while others are modern interpretations or
adaptations of traditional designs, and may not be appropriate as replacement tiles in a
preservation or restoration project.
Designs in Tile
P.O. Box 358
Mt. Shasta, CA 96067
Custom-made reproduction art tile.
Fulper Tile
P.O. Box 373
Yardley, PA 19067
Reopened factory reproduces historic tiles using original Arts and Crafts-period
glazes.
H&R Johnson Tiles Ltd.
Head Office: Highgate Tile Works
Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent
England ST6 4JX
U.S. Office: Johnson USA Inc.
P.O. Box 2335
Farmingdale, NJ 07727
Stock and custom reproductions of Minton
Hollins encaustic and geometric tiles.
L'Esperance Tile Works
237 Sheridan AvenueAlbany, NY 12210
Custom-made encaustic,
geometric, mosaic and other traditional ceramic tiles.
Moravian Pottery and Tile Works
Swamp Road
Doylestown, PA 18901
Reproduction tiles based on Henry Chapman Mercer's original designs.
Motawi Tileworks
33 North Staebler Road, Suite 2
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Reproduction tiles in Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and other styles.
Native Tile and Ceramics
4230 Glencoe Avenue
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
Reproduction decorative tiles in Southern California tradition of Craftsman,
Mission, Art Deco and other styles.
Original Style
Stovax Ltd.
Falcon Road
Sowton Industrial Estate
Exeter, Devon
England EX2 7LF
Reproduction ceramic tiles from 1750-1902.
Pewabic Pottery, Inc.
10125 East Jefferson Avenue
Detroit, MI 48214
Reopened factory reproduces original tile designs and glazes.
Terra Designs Tileworks
241 East Blackwell Street
Dover, NJ 07801
Mosaic tessarae experts, and reproduction of historic ceramic tiles.
Tile Guild
2840 East 11th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90023
Reproduction of traditional Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and English tiles.
Tile Restoration Center, Inc.
3511 Interlake N.
Seattle, WA 98103
Reproduction of Arts and Crafts-period tiles.
Helpful Organizations
The American Institute for Conservation of
Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)
1717 K Street, N.W., Suite 301
Washington, DC 20006
Ceramic Tile Institute of America, Inc.
12061 Jefferson Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90030-6212
Friends of Terra Cotta, Inc.
771 West End Avenue, 10E
New York, NY 10025
Tile Council of America
P.O. Box 1787
Clemson, SC 29633
Tile Heritage Foundation
P. O. Box 1850
Healdsburg, CA 95448
Acknowledgements
Anne E. Grimmer is Senior Architectural Historian, Technical Preservation
Services Branch, Heritage Preservation Services Program, National Park Service,
Washington, D.C. Kimberly A. Konrad is a Preservation Planner, Boston Landmarks
Commission, The Environment Department, City of Boston, MA. The authors wish to thank the
following individuals for providing technical review and other assistance in the
development of this publication: Marc Tartaro, AIA, and William Allen, Office of the
Architect of the Capitol, Washington, DC; Mary Catherine Bluder, Bucks County Historical
Society, Doylestown, PA; Michael F. Byrne, Ceramic Tile Education Foundation, Clemson, SC;
Milford Wayne Donaldson, FAIA, Los Angeles, CA; Gray LaFortune, CTC, Ceramic Tile
Institute of America, Inc., Culver City, CA; Joseph Taylor, Tile Heritage Foundation,
Healdsburg, CA; Susan Tunick, Friends of Terra Cotta, Inc., New York, NY; Anne Weber, Ford
Forewell Mills and Gatsch, Architects, Princeton, NJ; Glenn Wharton, Wharton &
Griswold Associates, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA; Charles E. Fisher, Sharon C. Park, AIA, and,
especially, Kay D. Weeks, National Park Service, Washington, DC.
