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were established by Mr J. M. Blashfield in 1858. By the intro- 

 duction of the English methods, the Chicago establishment soon 

 turned out better work than had been produced before in the 

 United States, 



The Perth Amboy ' 

 Terra Cotta Company 

 was incorporated in 

 1879, and at once em- 

 barked in the manufact- 

 ure of large designs for 

 architectural purposes 

 from clay obtained from 

 the neighboring depos- 

 its. The plant of this 

 company has expanded 

 so rapidly that at pres- 

 ent it includes twenty- 

 two kilns, some of them 

 measuring forty - eight 

 and one third feet in 

 height and twenty-four 

 and one sixth in diam- 

 eter, which are said to 

 be the largest of the kind 

 on this continent, if not 

 in the world. 



The company has in 

 its employ a number of 

 eminent artists in this 

 particular line, and has 

 furnished terra - cott;i 

 details for many promi- 

 nent buildings through- 

 out the country. Of 

 these we may mention 

 Young Maennerchor 

 Hall, Philadelphia; 

 Ponce de Leon Hotel, 

 St. Augustine, Florida ; 

 Biological Laboratory, 

 Princeton College ; and 

 Central School, Ironton, 

 Ohio. Fig. 45 repre- 

 sents a large panel in a 

 warehouse in Jersey City, and Fi 

 thony Club House, Philadelphia. 





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