TILE FRAGMENT FROM LCN BREAKFAST ROOM.

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

TILE FRAGMENT FROM LCN BREAKFAST ROOM.

Entry/Object ID

90.3.1.1

Description

One (1) tile, fragment, "Mosaico" type (per Joe Gonzales of Goez Studios), part of piece of tile used in La Casa Nueva's Breakfast Room, and east and west sun porches/dormitory wings, made of colored and compressed cement, done in a reverse process method incorporating a sort of cookie cutter process, with a gold-colored cement background and a green colored cement simplified geometric silhouette of a flower in the center. Fragment has one complete side with plaster still adhered and four additional edges where broken. Tile found by Carol Crilly, circa 1981 in West Wing Storage of LCN, lying on the floor by the furnace.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Tile

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Surface Elements

Nomenclature Class

Building Components

Nomenclature Category

Category 01: Built Environment Objects

Search Terms

Building Component, Tile