Helpful Organizations
The American Institute for Conservation of
Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)
1717 K Street, N.W., Suite 301
Washington, DC 20006
Ceramic Tile Institute of America, Inc.
12061 Jefferson Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90030-6212
Friends of Terra Cotta, Inc.
771 West End Avenue, 10E
New York, NY 10025
Tile Council of America
P.O. Box 1787
Clemson, SC 29633
Tile Heritage Foundation
P. O. Box 1850
Healdsburg, CA 95448
Acknowledgements
Anne E. Grimmer is Senior Architectural Historian, Technical Preservation Services Branch, Heritage Preservation Services Program, National Park Service, Washington, D.C.
Kimberly A. Konrad
is a Preservation Planner, Boston Landmarks Commission, The Environment
Department, City of Boston, MA. The authors wish to thank the
following individuals for providing technical review and other
assistance in the development of this publication: Marc Tartaro,
AIA, and William Allen, Office of the Architect of the Capitol,
Washington, DC; Mary Catherine Bluder, Bucks County Historical
Society, Doylestown, PA; Michael F. Byrne, Ceramic Tile Education
Foundation, Clemson, SC; Milford Wayne Donaldson, FAIA, Los Angeles,
CA; Gray LaFortune, CTC, Ceramic Tile Institute of America, Inc.,
Culver City, CA; Joseph Taylor, Tile Heritage Foundation, Healdsburg,
CA; Susan Tunick, Friends of Terra Cotta, Inc., New York, NY;
Anne Weber, Ford Forewell Mills and Gatsch, Architects, Princeton,
NJ; Glenn Wharton, Wharton & Griswold Associates, Inc., Santa
Barbara, CA; Charles E. Fisher, Sharon C. Park, AIA, and, especially,
Kay D. Weeks, National Park Service, Washington, DC.
Washington, D.C. October, 1996
This publication has been prepared pursuant to the National
Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, which directs the Secretary
of the Interior to develop and make available information concerning historic
properties. Technical Preservation Services (TPS), Heritage Preservation
Services Division, National Park Service prepares standards, guidelines,
and other educational materials on responsible historic preservation treatments
for a broad public.