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Seattle Vintage Tile Floors @seattlevtfloor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
a 🍅 in pike place. date unknown
White hexagonal tile interrupted by colored square tile in the shape of a red tomato, with black tile outline and green tile leaves.
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Seattle Vintage Tile Floors @seattlevtfloor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
(13) really digging the ampersand and the serifs. pioneer square. date unknown bc the parcel viewer won’t load and also i have literally hundreds of these to post
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Seattle Vintage Tile Floors @seattlevtfloor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
(12) a pleasant meander on capitol hill, c. 1908
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Seattle Vintage Tile Floors @seattlevtfloor.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
(11) this elaborate design in the entryway to the Schuermann Block, aka the Good Arts Building, doesn’t hesitate to remind you who originally paid for this thing. built in 1889-90 (!), the basement housed Seattle’s first gay and lesbian community center in the ‘70s and later the Skid Road Theatre.
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Seattle Vintage Tile Floors @seattlevtfloor.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
(10) the 🔰 emoji is not based on this border, and the border, which dates to 1927, definitely isn’t based on the emoji! in any case, i think the design is pleasingly delicate :) capitol hill.
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Seattle Vintage Tile Floors @seattlevtfloor.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
(9) here is a piece similar to yesterday’s uncommon pattern. the border is different (perhaps nicer) but the fill is the same. c. 1930, only a year older than the pattern in post 8. capitol hill.
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Seattle Vintage Tile Floors @seattlevtfloor.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
(8) i’m back to posting! this attractive and complex pattern might seem unique, and it sort of is, but i have found another very similar example of a similar age that i will post tomorrow! this one is in the hartford building in pioneer square, built 1929.
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Seattle Vintage Tile Floors @seattlevtfloor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
(7) this orphan marker at 12th Ave NE and NE 52nd St is likely a sibling to the ones along E Madison St in Madison Park of a similar design, which date to a few months in 1904 (!) when the city required these tile markers in addition to street signs.
A tile pattern is set in the concrete of a sidewalk. The pattern consists of square tiles with a one tile wide blue border surrounding white tiles with text reading “12.th. Ave. Ne.” in blue tiles. Many of the tiles are slightly chipped.
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Seattle Vintage Tile Floors @seattlevtfloor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
(6) terrazzo tuesday, anyone? this checkerboard-pattern tile is unusually rough (which is endearing, i think), but the lustrous green glass in the gray and white terrazzo really makes everything stand out. this is the Robbins Building on the ave, built 1927.
Terrazzo consisting of black, white, and green glass in a gray binder surrounds black and white checkerboard tile in a quadrilateral shape, three tiles wide, filled with terrazzo of similar glass composition but a white binder. The checkerboard tiles have rough edges. The pattern fills a tapered windowed doorway. The photo is taken on a sunny day.Corner detail of previous photo. There are bits of gum stuck on the pattern along with a stray leaf and a chip in the terrazzo.
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Seattle Vintage Tile Floors @seattlevtfloor.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
(5) it’s siding sunday! this c. 1927 example is rather maximalist, with a pastel wall pattern, green tile and stone floor, and elaborate moldings incl. an imposing bracketed cornice with dart-and-egg scrollwork that’s repeated on the pilasters, crown molding, panels, and even carved into the door.
The features described in the post are set on the entryway of a brick building, with the moldings in stone. The building’s windows are also shown, and are cased by a sort of stepped cyma recta molding.
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Seattle Vintage Tile Floors @seattlevtfloor.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
(4) what’s under there? oh.. penny tiles 🤤🤤 do you think they keep them under the mat and pot to avoid attracting pervs like me? seen in capitol hill, c. 1908
A tile pattern in a building entryway surrounded by marble trim; the center of the pattern are covered, and only the border is shown. The border is made of square tiles with a blue outer and inner strip of one tile and a blue wave pattern in the middle.The mat is removed to show the inner pattern is filled with white penny tiles.Further detail of the full pattern. The penny tiles are wet and a little grimy from the mat that covered them.
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Seattle Vintage Tile Floors @seattlevtfloor.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
(3) this capitol hill beauty is run-down, which is regrettable not least because of the beautiful penny tile and numbering. yes, 1908 really is the year this was built, not the address :)
Full photo of the pattern, including white hexagonal tiles with black “1908” in the middle, and a white, salmon, and green penny tile border with regular black and white penny tile dots.
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Seattle Vintage Tile Floors @seattlevtfloor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
(2) a real doozy on the hill: mixed floral and geometric patterns with multi-colored square and (!) hexagonal terracotta.. but the real bonus is that stained glass! c. 1931
Detail of hexagonal and square multi-colored terracotta interspersed with floral patterned tiles.A zoomed out view of the tiles and stained glass and a carved wooden doorway.Another zoomed out view of the entryway and tile, with a view of more stained glass.
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Seattle Vintage Tile Floors @seattlevtfloor.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
(1) a simple pattern, taken close to home… with regionally-appropriate earthquake damage!
A regular grid of hexagonal tiles, with a regular pattern consisting of 6 white tiles surrounding one dark seafoam green tile. There are two large cracks snaking through the tiles in the middle of the photograph.
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