Terra Cotta Building - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Terra Cotta Building - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Terra Cotta Building is a historic office building and display center located at Alfred in Allegany County, New York. It was built in 1892 by the Celadon Terra Cotta Company.The Celadon Terra Cotta Co. Archives and Special Collections at Herrick Memorial Library . Retrieved 2014-10-27 It is a one-story, , building built almost entirely of bricks, ornamental terra cotta, and roofing tiles manufactured by Celadon. The building was designed as a sales office for the company, and was considered a "catalog" of their work. A replica was erected at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The building was the only remaining structure after a fire broke out on August 29, 1909 and destroyed the Alfred factory of the Ludowici-Celadon Company. Read more on Wikipedia
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