American Encaustic Tiling Company

By 1890, they were the largest tile company in the world, and the small town of Zanesville nearly tripled in size over a thirty-year period as more people found work with the company.

[3] The firm closed in 1935 and was then reopened in 1937 as the Shawnee Pottery.

[4][5] Their tiles form a mural at the Borden's Dairy Factory at 2840 Atlantic Avenue in East New York.

[6] Designers and architects of the original New York subway stations partnered with Encaustic to develop color and decoration schemes fur the future stations.

An exhibit was paved in the future Columbus Circle station in 1901.