While visiting New York City last weekend, I stopped at the site of the circa 1892-1921 New York Architectural Terra-Cotta Company building that sits beneath the Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City. The business took advantage of its location along the East River in order to transport its production all over the tristate area, elsewhere in the United States and Canada, although this is the lone building that survives from this important business.
The company's decorative production adorns buildings throughout New York City today, including a number of important artifacts that still exist in Brooklyn and Manhattan, as well as some of the city's most prominent buildings that were constructed in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Untapped New York actually published an extensive story written about this company not that long ago, titled, A Terra Cotta Beauty Sits Alone Beneath The Queensboro Bridge.
Interestingly, I also included pictures of an outstanding late nineteenth or early twentieth century American terracotta architectural shelf, decorated with an eagle that I believe may have been manufactured at this business. It retains an illegible mark; I purchased it last fall while visiting Robesonia, Pennsylvania antiques dealer Greg Kramer, who acquired it years ago, and has kept it in storage ever since in one of the historic buildings on his property.
The Site of the New York Terra-Cotta Company in New York City
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