范·布里格尔陶器大厦
The century-old Van Briggle Pottery Company building is located southeast of the intersection of West Uintah Street and Glen Avenue in 科罗拉多州 Springs, 科罗拉多州.2 从1908年到1968年, the building operated as a pottery factory producing thousands of ceramic art and architectural pieces. The building faces south and is situated a short distance from the west bank of Monument Creek, adjacent to National Register-listed Monument Valley Park, a narrow designed landscape traversing the central part of the city presented to the citizens of 科罗拉多州 Springs in 1907 by its founder, 威廉·杰克逊·帕尔默. 陶艺公司网站, intended to impress visitors and inspire workers, 提供公园的美景, 溪, 西边是山脉. 今天, 该房产归赌博正规的十大网站所有, whose historic campus lies to the east; its Facilities Services Department occupies the pottery building. The building has projecting wings at each end of the facade that flank a central area originally planned for an open garden to artistically display pottery and now landscaped with sidewalks, 种植, 铺设好的停车场.3A tall red brick wall extends from the northwest corner of the building to the north, enclosing at the northwest corner a small rear courtyard landscaped with grass, 灌木, 还有一棵梨树. 这所学院利用了一个很大的, 坚固, asphalt-paved equipment yard with storage sheds north of the building. Across Glen Avenue to the west are a few small dwellings and another maintenance building associated with the college.
The pottery building originally housed the salesroom, 行政办公室, 工作室, 窑, 研讨会, and other functional rooms of the manufacturer and was designed to display the wares produced inside. Designed by Dutch architect Nicolaas van den Arend in a picturesque manner displaying Flemish farmhouse and Arts and 工艺s influences, the building provides an overall impression of solidity, 明亮的颜色, 形状和质地各异.4 The distinctive building served as an advertisement for the company and its image appeared on its promotional materials and letterhead. The walls are composed of red brick with many blackened headers, 用白灰浆涂在佛兰德胶布上, and enlivened with thousands of polychrome Van Briggle tiles and terra cotta ornaments placed to display their architectural use in decorative panels, 烟囱帽, 窗口功能, 甚至还有一只雕塑猫和一个石像鬼.5 正如该公司的工程师所指出的, 'To break the monotony a great many highly colored matt [sic] glaze tiles are used, 从青绿色到绿色的, yellow and plum colors; also glazed terra cotta, 以及自然的颜色.'6 Three types of tiles are found on the exterior of the building: 'machine pressed, hand-glazed, single color tiles; hand-pressed and decorated polychrome tiles, in which the glaze is applied onto pressed designs that serve as troughs to contain the different pigments; and the most dramatic of the three--the molded, 手工着色三维瓷砖.'7 Most of the tile installations have designs representing flowers or foliage, 但也有代表人物的瓷砖, 动物, 和对象.8 稍微突出的, raised foundation is composed of roughly-quarried, 随机排列的粉红色流纹岩, and the roof is clad with composition roofing shingles. The roof has multiple gables and dormers with decorative tile faces and tiny shingled dormers. Five projecting square brick chimneys have flower-shaped tile insets and foliate terra cotta caps. 屋顶上矗立着两个巨大的, bottle-shaped brick kiln smokestacks that have floriate terra cotta ornaments in high relief and tiles featuring the pottery company's logo, a conjoined AA enframed by a square designed by the founders that represents the first letters of their first names. Variations of the conjoined AA design are found on tiles throughout the building.
1 The description of ornamental tiles and terra cotta in this narrative makes extensive use of information contained in Molly Wingate and Linda Crissey, The 范·布里格尔陶器大厦: A Walking Tour (科罗拉多州 Springs: Woman's Educational Society, 2008).
2 At some unidentified date after the pottery opened, people also began referring to it as the 'Van Briggle Memorial Pottery' and the 'Van Briggle Memorial Building.'
3 科罗拉多斯普林斯公报，1907年5月7日.
4 Nicolaas is the spelling van den Arend used on official papers and is on his death certificate, although many publications over the years have spelled his name 'Nicholas.'
5 Flemish bond features header and stretcher bricks laid alternately in each course, with each header centered with the stretchers above and below it. N. 弗兰克·弗雷泽, 谁研究了大楼的瓷砖, 发现5个以上,500块, both machine-pressed and handmade using red and white clays.
6 弗兰克·H. 谜题, 'The New Pottery and Art Terra Cotta Plant of the Van Briggle Pottery Company at 科罗拉多州 Springs, 科罗拉多州.,' Transactions of the American Ceramic Society 10(1908): 67.
7 Sandra Knauf, "The Van Briggle Connection," 科罗拉多州 Homes and Lifestyles, March/April 1992, 58.
8 理查德·D. 莫尔, Van Briggle瓷砖:他们的艺术, 工艺, 和商业, 第一部分," Journal of the American Pottery Association 23(March/April 2007): 21.