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six diminutive original and intact 19th century interior david c. cook mansion "stoke on trent" glazed minton floor tiles featuring a visually striking design
  • six diminutive original and intact 19th century interior david c. cook mansion "stoke on trent" glazed minton floor tiles featuring a visually striking design
  • six diminutive original and intact 19th century interior david c. cook mansion "stoke on trent" glazed minton floor tiles featuring a visually striking design
  • six diminutive original and intact 19th century interior david c. cook mansion "stoke on trent" glazed minton floor tiles featuring a visually striking design
  • six diminutive original and intact 19th century interior david c. cook mansion "stoke on trent" glazed minton floor tiles featuring a visually striking design
  • six diminutive original and intact 19th century interior david c. cook mansion "stoke on trent" glazed minton floor tiles featuring a visually striking design
six diminutive original and intact 19th century interior david c. cook mansion "stoke on trent" glazed minton floor tiles featuring a visually striking design

six diminutive original and intact 19th century interior david c. cook mansion "stoke on trent" glazed minton floor tiles featuring a visually striking design

SKU: UR-24819-16
group of six matching original and intact 19th century aesthetic movement glazed ceramic or encaustic david c. cook mansion interior floor tiles fabricated by the minton china works, stoke on trent, england. the vibrantly colored yellow and red floor tiles with striking design were carefully and skillfully salvaged from the cook mansion, located in elgin, il. the house still stands, but has been greatly modified and abandoned and condemned for years. david c. cook, founder of a prominent religious publishing operation, built the high victorian queen anne chateauesque style mansion on the corner of gifford and division streets in 1885. in 1945 the grand residence was converted (i.e., modernized and expanded) into the mary margaret nursing home and later renamed the bowes retirement center. fortunately, interior elegant furnishings located on both the first and second floors were left intact from the time of mr. cook's occupancy. the fate of the house remains uncertain. any and all mortar carefully removed from the backside of the tile. priced for the lot of tiles.

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