• Gladding, McBean is a ceramics company located in Lincoln, California. It is one of the oldest companies in California, a pioneer in ceramics technology...
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    Franciscan Ceramics are ceramic tableware and tile products produced by Gladding, McBean & Co. in Los Angeles, California, US from 1934 to 1962, International...
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  • Gladding is a surname and may refer to: Charles Gladding (1828–1894), American co-founder of Gladding, McBean ceramics company Fred Gladding (1936 – 2015)...
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    Catalina Island, California. Catalina Clay Products was founded in 1927. Gladding, McBean & Co. acquired all of the assets of the company in 1937 and moved all...
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    Products, and Gladding, McBean & Co. All of the "Big Five" potteries operated production facilities in the Los Angeles Basin. Gladding, McBean & Co. grew...
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  • Australia McBean Formation, a geologic formation in South Carolina, U.S. Gladding, McBean, a ceramics company in Lincoln, California, U.S. James McBean Residence...
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    Ceramics manufactured by Gladding, McBean & Co. Grant designed several fine china and earthenware shapes for Gladding, McBean. Grant designed the American...
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    floors feature TerraCotta tiles manufactured in Lincoln, California by Gladding, McBean and Company and the wall tiles were created by renowned Tunisian ceramic...
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    architectural terra cotta produced by Gladding, McBean. San Diego Register Listing for the John D. Spreckels Building Gladding, McBean, and Co. "Spreckels Building...
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    concrete. Ceramic tiles and terra cotta for the project were produced by Gladding, McBean and Company. The current city hall, at 303 W. Commonwealth Avenue,...
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    period as the introduction of Bauer's California Colored Pottery were Gladding, McBean & Co.'s Franciscan Ware, Metlox Manufacturing Company, Pacific Clay...
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    potteries were Metlox Manufacturing Company, Pacific Clay Products, Gladding, McBean & Co., and J.A. Bauer Pottery. After the purchase of Poxon China in...
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    renamed Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Company. The company was bought by Gladding, McBean in 1927 and ceased to exist as a separate operation. Ornamental terra...
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    structure, removing some 40,000 of the unique Roman bricks manufactured by Gladding, McBean that would be used to construct still-existing train stations in Missoula...
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    Pacific Railroad in January 1916. In 1916 the company was sold to Gladding, McBean of Lincoln, California. In an effort to reduce competition, the new...
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    building for the American Savings Bank of Anaheim. The rich use of Gladding-McBean tile on the entire south and west facades arguably made it the most...
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    designers such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Rennie MacKintosh, and the Gladding, McBean Company. Its name is based on Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa...
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    Formation were discovered nearby. This led to the establishment of Gladding, McBean & Co., the pottery for which Lincoln is now famous, ushering in a new...
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    Auburn and dedicated on April 25, 1916. The terracotta was supplied by Gladding, McBean and Company which is still in existence. The first floor, which once...
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    concrete with aluminum sash windows covered by louvers. Ceramic tile by Gladding, McBean covered the west elevation. The building combined police facilities...
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    restoration purposes. Historic manufacturers of terracotta such as Gladding, McBean, Ludowici-Celadon, and newer companies such as Boston Valley Terra...
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  • lacrosse and rugby. Gladding McBean a ceramics company located in Lincoln, is one of the oldest companies in California. McBean Regional Park in Lincoln...
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    stone blocks, which were manufactured by Gladding, McBean & Company. The building was constructed by the J. V. McNeil Company who constructed several of...
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    Machine “On the Monterey Peninsula” (Hotel Del Monte), Shapes of Clay, Gladding, McBean & Co. & Los Angeles Pressed Brick Co., Vol. 2, No. 7, August 1926,...
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    and concrete panels with architectural terra cotta manufactured by Gladding, McBean. The six-story building has a marquee over the main entrance. The theater...
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    with its own power plant and decorated with polychrome murals by Gladding, McBean depicting the tire and rubber-making process. A year after the plant...
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    "Big Five" Southern California potteries were Metlox, Vernon Kilns, Gladding, McBean & Co., J.A. Bauer Pottery, and Pacific Clay Products. Early pottery...
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    California's most successful of its kind alongside Catalina Pottery, Gladding, McBean, and Batchelder tile. Rindge also founded the Malibu Movie Colony,...
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    display and a scale model of a winter house. Northern Clay Company, aka Gladding, McBean - illustrates the architectural terra cotta of Seattle and Tacoma,...
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    Wunderlich Tiles, a company founded by London-born Frederick Wunderlich. Gladding, McBean Guastavino tile Tile Heritage Foundation "The Terracotta revival: building...
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