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A highly decorative terra-cotta belt course between the brick and stone wall materials. A belt course, also called a string course or sill course, [1] is a continuous row or layer of stones or brick set in a wall. [2] Set in line with window sills, it helps to make the horizontal line of the sills visually more prominent. Set between the floors ...
Plinth: The bottom course of a wall. String course (Belt course or Band course): A decorative horizontal row of masonry, narrower than the other courses, that extends across the façade of a structure or wraps around decorative elements like columns. [1] [2] [4] Sill course: Stone masonry courses at the windowsill, projected out from the wall. [1]
The initial companies to find success were the Chicago Terra Cotta Works and the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Company, but New York real estate magnate Orlando B. Potter saw an opportunity for a company based closer to New York City to succeed and founded the New York Architectural Terra-Cotta Company with his son-in-law Walter Geer in 1886. [1]
The restrained facade is countered by a decorative peaked parapet above the semicircular window. It starts with a band of terra cotta panels in alternating circular and foliate motifs between sawtooth brick courses. Above them is a corbeled tier, with similar features serving as end brackets. [1]
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A cotton spinning mill designed to use mains electricity, it has an internal structure of cast iron, steel and concrete, and is clad in red brick with dressings in terracotta and white stone, and has sill bands, a wide string course, pilasters above and below it, corner turrets with banded parapets.
The Atlantic Terra Cotta Company created the Supreme Court Building's clay tile roof in 1932. The Atlantic Terra Cotta Company was established in 1879 as the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta in Perth Amboy, New Jersey due to rich regional supplies of clay. It was one of the first successful glazed architectural terra-cotta companies in the United States ...
Two terra cotta belt courses with paneling between set off the second story, with large corbels on the corner towers. The upper one forms the sill of the one-over-one double-hung sash windows with painted wood surrounds and glass transoms topped by terra cotta lintels. On the towers flanking the center, these windows are additionally topped by ...