09. Terra Cotta Blocks
(p) On Hollow Brickwork and its Various Applications [lesflet]. No details [1851].
Frederick Squires. The Hollow-Tile House. New York 1913.
(p) Atlantic Terra Cotta Company, Atlantic Terra Cotta: a 52 Story Facade. Atlantic Terrra Cotta Co, New York, no date [1913]. [Woolworth Building]
C E White [ed W S Lowndes]. Hollow Tile Construction. Scranton [Pennsylvania] 1919. bound with:
J J Cosgrove [ed W S Lowndes]. Fireproofing of Buildings. Scranton [Pennsylvania] 1919. For a later edition of Cosgrove, see Bracing, Fireproofing, Specifications under Structural Design, below.
C E White [ed W S Lowndes]. Hollow Tile Construction. Philadelphia 1924 [1919]. Apart from a preface, this appears to be totally unaltered from the original edition of 1919.
Hay Walker Brick Company. Architectural Details ['Showing Best and Approved Practice in Wall Construction Using Denison Walltile']. Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania], no date [?c 1920].
[Mastertile]. Hollow Tile Farm Buildings. Hollow Tile Building Association, Chicago 1920.
[Mastertile]. Handbook of Hollow Building Tile Construction. Chicago 1921.
(p) Mastertile. Loose sheet, apparently a back cover, from a Mastertile publication identified only as Serial No. 31, 25 April 1921, containing an extensive list of 'Association Members who Manufacture Mastertile'.
(p) Mastertile. 'The Hollow Building Tile Association Plan Service'. Loose sheet, with text and four photographs of garages on the obverse; twelve renderings of houses on the reverse, all identified by design numbers.
D K Boyd & W S Lowndes. Building-Unit Construction. 1st ed, Scranton [Pennsylvania] 1943. The greater part of this book is an updating of White, Hollow Tile Construction, using fewer illustrations. To this is added an essay on construction in glass blocks.
Natco
National Fire Proofing Company. Fireproof Construction for Houses and other Buildings of Moderate Cost. 3rd ed, Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] 1910 [1908]. [Link]
National Fire Proofing Company. A Book of House Designs. Boston 1910. The greater part of the book consists of entries in the Brickbuilder competition in 1909 for a $10,000 terra cotta house. [Link]
National Fire Proofing Company. Fireproof Houses of Natco Hollow Tile and How to Build Them. 5th ed, Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] 1911 [1908].
National Fire Proofing Company. Fireproof Construction ... Natco Hollow Tile. 6th ed, Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] 1912 [1908]. Other publications by this company include designs by W B Griffin and by his employee George Elgh. [Link]
National Fire Proofing Company. Fireproof Houses of Natco Hollow Tile [Boston Edition]. [7th ed, Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] 1914 [1908]. [Link]
National Fire Proofing Company. Builders Handbook of Natco Hollow Tile Construction. Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] 1916. [Link]
(p) National Fire Proofing Company. Tex-Tile Home Plans. Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] no date [?1928]. The company's use of the term 'Tex-Tile Block' anticipated F L Wright. [Link]
See also:
(sec 6) Graham, Audels Masons and Builders Guide (sec 8) American Clay-Working Machinery Co (sec 17) ICS. Walls and Fireproofing Bracing, Fireproofing, Specifications