Floor tile from the Mecca Flats Apartments in Chicago, Illinois
date: label: Date
content: 1891-1892
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Unidentified
label: Designed by
content: Edbrooke & Burnham, American, 1879 - 1892
label: Designed by
content: Willoughby J. Edbrooke, American, 1843 - 1896
label: Designed by
content: Franklin P. Burnham, American, 1853 - 1909
notes: label: Description
content: A floor tile fragment from the Mecca Flats Apartments in Chicago, Illinois. The tile is trapezoidal in shape and reddish-orange in color. The top of the tile has an indentation with a dark inclusion. The underside of the tile has two shallow grooves running horizontally through the tile where it would have locked into the mortar. The top of the tile has an angled edge.
place: label: Place used
content: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Architecture
label: Topic
content: Black geographies
label: Topic
content: Building Arts
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Domestic life
label: Topic
content: Ornamentation
label: Topic
content: Urban life
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
label: Classification
content: Buildings and Structures
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Isabel Dunham Strauss
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2022.2
objectType: label: Type
content: landmark buildings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ceramic
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 3 3/8 × 3 × 1/2 in. (8.6 × 7.6 × 1.3 cm)