What a tremendous amount of work! This is wonderful, thank you.

I love this! So neat, thank for sharing

Amazing amount of detailed research! Hope it is integrated somewhere into architectural history resources.

I've used simpler borders in halls and living rooms. Now, I want to upgrade.

Very pretty Thank you for sharing.

Now that is some old house eye-candy for sure!!!

nice

Such a valuable resource for those of us that need to recreate our flooring borders! Thank you!

Thank you so much for this great resource.

Wow! So cool!

I lived in many an old building in DC years ago and you would occasionally see this type of detail, But my friends in Brooklyn had these gems everywhere. Wonder why it was so prevalent in NYC and it didn't make it to other cities with the same frequency? Available craftspeople? More wealth? They just get ripped out in DC more often? Puzzling.

@ ls1114.

It is very much dependent on when the building was built. And the homes would have been towards the higher end. Some neighborhoods here are too old, and in one neighborhood the only reason I found a floor was around 1900 the owners refloored the house.

I have dated most of the pictures. To refine the dates, and to get the 19th century ones, I need to make another one hour each way bicycle trip to the Finance office, where the old records are kept. But not until the office reopens.

At the top of my page I have Circa 1885-1920. Was that a big growth period in DC? It was a period of housing boom in Brooklyn. Development here in the 19th century followed the rail lines.

The floors were manufactured in a factory. I doubt you needed craftspeople beyond what was readily available any place.

Awesome catalog