http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/ Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:37:16 -0000 Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:27:12 -0000 http://images.tileofmartinez.multiply.com/logo http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com 100 100 http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/32/Heath_California_Seal_TilePage_Street_San_Francisco Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:27:12 -0000 http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/31/PDB37NovDec Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:10:12 -0000 Martinez City Library http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/links/item/5/Martinez_City_Library_Nomination Mon, 8 Oct 2007 04:37:56 -0000 http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/links/item/4/Gladding_McBean_LLC_-_History Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:09:33 -0000 Features many more buildings in http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/links/item/3/Martinez_Historic_Society Tue, 3 Jul 2007 20:27:32 -0000 Built 1930, perhaps the most remarkable in size and quantity tile in Martinez. Nice example of adaptive reuse from old Jr. High (pictured). William Weeks is architect & may have been architect for the former Mt. View school. He was the architect for Campbell H.S. pictured http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/29/Martinez_Junior_High_School Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:25:41 -0000 http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/28/Montgomery_Ward_Building_1929 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:58:52 -0000 These are examples of buildings with Spanish Tile only. Many entry way and decorative tile buildings have this roof as well. We also have terra cotta http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/26/Spanish_Tile_Buildings Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:35:04 -0000 Southwest corners of Main and Castro (LaTapatia). Magic Theater building on east side of Castro near Green & building next to it. Gazette building on Estudillo near Escobar. Main Street brick building. Hook building corner Ferry and Main. Much of this tile cannot be identified because it would have been custom, although most is probably Batchelder and Cal. Art Tile http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/24/Buildings_with_singular_but_unique_tile Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:30:54 -0000 Martinez has an unusual repository of original tile storefronts on Main, Estudillo, and Ferry Streets. With the exception of the Martinez Furniture Company and the "T" entry way, the rest of the Tile is from California Art Tile http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/23/Original_Tile_Storefronts_Galore Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:00:35 -0000 REA at corner Ferry and Ward, 735 Green, and Las Juntas at http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/22/Buildings_with_just_Blue_Tile_accents Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:37:03 -0000 These buildings have "Tropico" tiles, that are a mottled green. Tropico Potteries existed from 1920 - 1923, when it was bought by Gladding McBean. The Gladding McBean company introduced some tile designs of its own, but at the same time continued through the 1920s to manufacture some of the old patterns that Tropico Potteries had originated. So there is no way to tell - except if you know the date of the particular building - whether the tiles were made before or after GMcB took over the operation. The Tropico factory (now in Glendale) was the site of the first manufacturing of art tiles in California, starting about 1901 or so. At least three companies established manufacturing there and then went out of business at that location prior to the establishment of Tropico Potteries. (One of the companies was Western Art Tile). http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/21/Tropico_Tile_Buildings Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:26:14 -0000 Two different fireplaces, in two very different homes and neighborhoods. See Cal. Art. Co. catalogue pages below. The 1912 home (fireplace put in later) very large and grand; 1929 home, small, Spanish eclectic built as an adjunct to a store. Begun in 1923 and ending in the late 1960's, California Art Tile is a very revered ceramics company. The tiles are worth surprising sums money. Click on any photo below to enlarge, and then again to fill http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/19/California_Art_Tile_Company_Fireplace_Tile Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:11:49 -0000 Located on Court Street. Sporting a Maynard Dixon mural and finished in 1937, the Martinez Post Office was funded under a 6 month long New Deal program that preceeded WPA and PWA and under a completely different department: The U.S. Treasury. Another fine feature of this Post Office is its Brass Eagle (a registered National Object) and its brass Eagle post boxes. Although below memo states the PO would be dedicated in January 1937, the opening was postponed 6 months due to a delay in the tile delivery from the http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/18/New_Deal_Post_Office_1937 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:59:20 -0000 Best example of store front tile in Martinez. Leah's Closet. The architectural tile surround with shield is very reminscent of Gladding McBean in Glazing and clay content. The rest of the tile is California Art Tile Company. The brick work is very much like the Sharkey building, whose brick contractor was Pryce Roberts--and agent for California Art Tile Co. This building was the home of the Gazette, a Dentist's office, and now one of the most affordable and quality consignment shops to be seen http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/16/831_Main_Street Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:44:07 -0000 The Sharkey Building was recently added to the State Historic Register. Its builder was Wallace Snelgrove of Richmond, Pryce Roberts brick subcontractor and also advertised in Polk's Richmond and Martinez City Directory as agent for California Art Tile Company. Recently someone from Tile Heritage Foundation bought one piece of the exact garnish tile for http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/9/1926_Sharkey_Building Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:53:44 -0000 "Bricks are the Introductory Member of the fired terra cotta class" --Riley Doty, Tile Heritage Foundation Scroll down to see Martinez brick buildings http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/links/item/2/Dan_Mosiers_Study_of_Bricks Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:26:26 -0000 Many thanks to the Tile Heritage Foundation for its support for the study of Martinez Tile. Check out their Website for more interesting tile http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/links/item/1/Tile_Heritage_Foundation_Website Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:24:01 -0000 But both sets Art Moderne Wheel Sunburst tile saved and to be reused in Library and Train Depot! The origin of this tile is unknown. Its clay is different than Gladding McBean's which bought out NW Clark & Son in the 1960's. It was one of the most beautiful buildings in Martinez and very sturdily http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/7/1942_Assessors_Building_Now_Demolished_but_tile_saved Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:56:05 -0000 The Masons have existed within 2 blocks of this building since 1850's. This is a particularly wonderful Art Deco building inside and out with a magnificent spiral staircase. Please read text-filled image below for Rigney Tile http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/6/1930_Masons_Hall_Mason_St_at_Estudillo Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:22:23 -0000 5 different tiles on building originally morturary in 1927. The peacock tile is definitely from Cal. Art Tile Co. The blue, patterned tile is from Tunisia. Also shown 3 samples, courtesy Riley Doty, which date from 1920s. The style of finish & reverse sides between illustrate differences found in Tunisian tiles of the period. All Tunisian tiles glazed fronts contain 3 little scars in the glaze,forming an equilateral triangle. These uniquely identify tiles from Tunisia as they were glazed on stacked http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/5/1124_Ferry_corner_Henreitta_built_1927 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:09:58 -0000 On striking Zigzag Art Deco facade of original garage http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/3/Ship_Tile_600_Block_Ferry Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:18:52 -0000 A great adaptive use of a beautiful building that is on the State Historic Register. The yellowish brick is from Livermore Fire Bricks Company and it is unknown where the ceramic detailing came from. The only evidence I could find was that it could have come from Gladding McBean, as GMB advertised in this issue of Architect and Engineer as did Livermore Bricks. The latter is what comprises City Hall, as per brick specialist Dan Mosier. It is unlike Gladding McBean to have unglazed, low fire terra cotta so it cannot be http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/2/City_Hall_Built_as_Grammar_School_in_1917. Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:03:13 -0000 http://tileofmartinez.multiply.com/photos/album/1/Built_1916_Ferry_Street_514_PGE_bldg Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:58:35 -0000