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

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