In a message dated 3/4/2008 4:40:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
The 1894 house at the southwest corner of 72nd and Madison, designed by McKim, Mead & White was described as having a facade of limestone and "Tiffany brick."    What does that term mean?
 
A black and white photograph from 1900 indicates mottled, Roman brick, perhaps ironspot.
 
House is demolished.     Christopher

My guess would be that it was built with the same brick as the upper floors of Tiffany's house, and have to assume you would make the same assumption.  Was this a period description, from the time Tiffany's house (1884) was still standing and this house was new?  Plate 5 in the MM&W monograph makes Tiffany's house look like Roman brick. 
 
Ralph
Ralph



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