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. thank you for your wild conjecture. or perhaps the brick was solid gold and they bought it at tiffany's. at breakfast. yrs audrey hepcat -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>