Cripple Creek courthouse Front Range Ceramic Art Tile — ceramic art tile

Cripple Creek courthouse Front Range Ceramic Art Tile

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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Cripple Creek courthouse Front Range Ceramic Art Tile — ceramic art tile

Cripple Creek courthouse Front Range Ceramic Art Tile

$22.00
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Built in 1904, eight years after two fires in 1896 burned most of the wood-frame town. Cripple Creek had something like 25,000 residents at the gold-rush peak; today, around 1,200. The courthouse went up in three stories of granite, more building than the town has needed for a hundred years. It still holds court. The stone keeps its colour at altitude. Cold blues in winter shadow, warm browns when the late sun catches the west face. From Bennett Avenue the whole rebuilt district sits in view, two blocks of brick and stone, with the back of Pikes Peak rising to the east.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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