Atlantic Terra Cotta Company

The Atlantic Terra Cotta Company, established in 1846 as A. Hall and Sons Terra Cotta, was founded in Perth Amboy, New Jersey[1] due to Perth Amboy's rich supplies of clay. It was one of the first successful terra cotta companies in the United States.[2] Originally, the company produced porcelain and household wares but transitioned to terra cotta items. The company, always located at 59 Buckingham Avenue, changed its name to the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Company and then to Atlantic Terra Cotta[2] which, as the preeminent architectural terra cotta producer in the United States, went on to produce in its kilns the terra cotta for such notable buildings as the United States Supreme Court, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Woolworth Building.[2][3]

Workers at the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company plant in Rocky Hill, New Jersey
View of Supreme Court Building from United States Capitol dome. Atlantic Terra Cotta created the terra cotta roof for the building housing the nation’s highest court.

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References
  1. Seguine-Levine, Joan (2004). Perth Amboy, NJ. Arcadia Publishing. p. 26. ISBN 0-7385-3465-X.
  2. Bzdak, Meredith Arms; Petersen, Douglas (1999). Public Sculpture in New Jersey: Monuments to Collective Identity. Rutgers University Press. p. 39. ISBN 0-8135-2700-7.
  3. Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of New Jersey (1934). New Jersey: A Guide to Its Present and Past. U.S History Publishers. p. 368. ISBN 1-60354-029-6.
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