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 REPRESENTING THE FIRM OF 
 
 GARL LUDOWIGI, * = = + 
 Ludwigshaten, Germany, 
 
 MANUFACTURERS AND EXHIBITORS AT THIS EXPOSITION OF THE 
 
 Root of the German Government Building on the Lake Front 
 
 AND THE 
 
 Pavilion in fMorthwest Corner of Mining Building. 
 

 
 GERMAN GOVERNMENT BUILDING AT CHICAGO EXPOSITION, 
 
 ROOFED WITH LupowIcI TILE. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Ludowici Patent Clay 
 
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 The sole right to manufacture these Tiles in America is vested in the 
 
 
 
 Lupowic1! Roorinc TILE Company. 
 
 This Company’s first manufacturing plant is building at Chicago Heights, 
 Illinois, and will be in operation in August. 
 
 The Company’s Chicago office is at 318 Chamber of Commerce, corner 
 of Washington and La Salle streets, where all interested in 77le Roofs are 
 
 cordially invited to call or address inquiries. 
 
 The Ludowici Roofing Tile Co. 
 
 H. B. SKEELE, President, 
 Cuicaco, July 25th, 1893. S. H. POMEROY, Secy-Treas. 
 

 
 SECTION OF RooF OF GERMAN GOVERNMENT BUILDING AT CHICAGO EXPOSITION, 
 SHOWING THE Lupowic1 RooFING TILE. 
 
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From bottom to top, no part of a building demands more urgently the 
 
 best thought and work of architect and artizan than the roof. 
 
 The Perfect Roof 
 
 Must be, above all else, absolutely impervious to rain and snow. It must 
 undergo, without destructive effect, the greatest changes of temperature and 
 successfully resist every influence of weather. Its material should be, as 
 nearly as possible, a non-conductor of heat; and that it be fire-proof is of 
 the highest importance. Its surface should be such that water shall run 
 off rapidly and snow will not lodge. It should also resist the acid fumes 
 that are always encountered in chemical and metallurgical works. 
 
 If of unyielding material, like clay tile or slate, it should not be 
 nailed or screwed to the supporting structure. Short life is assured to 
 
 any such roof thus rzg¢dly fastened. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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It must be pleasing in design and color and not too heavy. 
 
 These combined characteristics have never been presented in any 
 Roofing Tile heretofore manufactured in America. While many American 
 Tile are artistically good, they are none of them tight in themselves, an inner 
 tight roof or expensive laying in cement being required, thus greatly increasing 
 both weight and cost. American Tile, like slate, are all nailed or screwed on, 
 and the expense of laying them 1s far too large a proportion of their cost. 
 
 Slate 1s not weather-proof, it is dangerous in case of fire, and repairs 
 are frequent and expensive. On locomotive round houses and other buildings 
 where injurious vapors rise, 1ts use has largely ceased, because the nails are 
 destroyed and the slate drops off. 
 
 Gravel Roofs are extensively used but leaks are constant and repairs 
 costly. 
 
 Tron and Tin in various forms compete for public favor, but the annual 
 or biennial coat of paint soon doubles up the cost ; moreover, they too readily 
 
 admit heat and cold. 
 
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Shingles while cheap at first are combustible and perishable ; hence 
 
 dangerous and expensive. 
 
 The Ludowici Patent Clay Roofing Tile 
 
 Avoids all of these defects, and combines all the merits previously named as 
 characteristic of the perfect roof. 
 
 It is manufactured on an enormous scale by the firm of Cart Lupowict 
 at their factories at Ludwigshafen and Jockgrim, in Germany. 
 
 The Ludow7cz Tzle in its present perfection is the result of many years 
 of experiment and invention, and is the leading German Tile. It is the 
 prevailing roof for government work, churches, factories, breweries, railroad 
 structures of all kinds and very generally for residences. 
 
 Its merits, as compared with those of all other German Tile, are 
 evidenced in its selection by the German Imperial Commission for the roof of 
 
 their Government building at the World’s Fair in Chicago. 
 

 
 
 
 SECTION OF RooF oF GERMAN GOVERNMENT BvuILDING aT CHICAGO EXPOSITION, 
 SHOWING THE LupowIcI RooFinaG TILE. 
 
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Being thus the best in Germany, where Tile are more perfectly made 
 and generally used than in any other country, it is plain that here, where Tile 
 are so little used, so primitive in pattern, so laboriously laid, so inefficient in 
 service and so expensive, they must be conspicuously in advance of every 
 
 American Tile. 
 
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 Is made in many patterns, sizes and colors, affording pleasing variety, and all 
 needed conformity with different styles of architecture, as shown in the 
 
 accompanying illustrations of roofs on which it is laid, 
 
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 EXHIBIT OF ROOFING TILE AND ORNAMENTAL Pieces MapDE aT THE Lupowici Facrory, JocKGRIM. 
 
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The Patent Lock at sides and ends, Figs. 8 and 9, is absolute protection 
 against water, at the same time affording such plav in all joints that slight 
 motion of feeliles from whatever cause, cannot result injuriously. Although 
 in Germany these Tiles are seldom fastened in any way to the structure, 
 except on very steep roofs or towers, they may be easily wired on if desired, as 
 shown in Fig. 8. The inter-locking principle makes the wiring of one Tile in 
 four or five, ample to secure the roof. No sheeting is required nor inner 
 roof of any kind; simply horizontal 2-inch lathing, eight to thirteen inches 
 apart on the rafters. The Tile are merely laid or hung on this lathing. 
 
 No cement is used except in laying the ridges, hips and ornamental 
 pieces. A single tile can at any time be taken out and replaced without injury 
 to the others. Their weight on the roof is no greater than that of slate, yet 
 
 they can be walked on without danger of breaking. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fic. 43.—IRON SKYLIGHT FRAME, INTERLOCKING 
 WITH THE TILE ON ALL Four SIDEs. 
 
 
 
 Fic. 9.—DouBLeE Lock ON SIDEs, 
 

 
 
 
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 LATHING 13 INCHES APART, CENTERS. 
 

 
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 Fic. 5.—Cross SECTION. 
 
 Dimensions, 9 x 16 inches. 
 Exposure to weather, 72 per cent. 
 One square (100 square ft.) requires 142 tiles. 
 
 Weight per square about 700 lbs. 
 
 FiG. 4.—SURFACE. 
 
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Especial attention is invited to the appended testimonials from parties 
 who have had the Ludowici Tile in use for many years with absolutely no 
 occasion for repairs of any kind. It will be observed that some of these 
 references are from high altitudes of the lower Alps, where the Ludowici Tile 
 are extensively used, decause they stand perfectly, the severe winters of those 
 stormy regions, more severe than ours, and characterized by changes of 
 temperature quite as sudden and extreme. These statements, which can be 
 affidavits if necessary, constitute precisely as reliable testimony to the weather 
 qualities of the Ludow/ci Tile, as though they had already done the same 
 service here. Yhe Ludowici Tile are guaranteed, if properly laid, for five 
 years, and Tile are furnished free of cost to replace any proving defective 
 
 in that time. 
 
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 SrecTION OF Roor oF,GERMAN GOVERNMENT BUILDING AT CHICAGO EXPOSITION, 
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 RESIDENCE OF HERR WILHELM LupowiIcl, JOCKGRIM, GERMANY. 
 
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 We bought in June, 1875, Ludowici Tile for the roofing of our new factory, which 
 is much exposed to the weather. We take pleasure in stating that vo repairing has since 
 
 been necessary on said roof. 
 GESCHWINDT & Co. 
 Karlsruhe. 
 
 
 
 We have bought since 1878, our supply of Roofing Tiles for all new buildings from 
 the factory of Carl Ludowici, amounting to from 30,000 to 36,000 annually. We have 
 not yet had occasion to make any repairs on these Tiles, and they have proved to be 
 adapted to the high altitudes and stormy regions of our Alps. We can therefore highly 
 
 recommend them as to quality and durability. 
 Count Von RECHBERG, 
 Donzdorf. Kehrer, Chief Architect. 
 
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 TION OF ROOF OF GERMAN GOVERNMENT BUILDING AT CHICAGO EXPOSITION, 
 
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 SHOWING Lupowic!I RooFING TILE. 
 
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My residence was roofed, in the year 1861, with Ludowici Tiles, and I testify with 
 
 pleasure that it has since required no repairs. 
 WILHELM SCHOLLER. 
 Ludwigshafen, Rhein. 
 
 
 
 
 
 We are entirely satisfied with the Roofing Tiles supplied by Carl Ludowici in 1875 
 and 1882. They have required no repairs. In elevating our large factory building, we 
 took down the tile that had been laid in 1875, and wsed them all again without any 
 
 exceptions. 
 KuHN & ADLER, 
 
 Ludwigshafen. Wool Manufacturers. 
 
 
 
 
 
 We hereby certify that our large cask houses, cooling, malt and boiling houses have 
 been roofed since 1862 with the Ludowici Tiles, and we have not had trouble about 
 
 repairs since then. 
 LUDWIGSHAFEN BREWING Co. 
 Ludwigshafen. Mueller, President. 
 
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 RAILROAD WAREHOUSE AT LUDWIGSHAFEN. 
 
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I bought of the firm of Carl Ludowici, a large quantity of Roofing Tile, and wish to 
 state that they have been very satisfactory in every respect, and especially weather-proof, 
 so that after twelve years not the least repairing is necessary. 
 
 JoOsePH SHURER, 
 Wurzburg. Tobacco Factory. 
 
 
 
 
 
 I testify to my entire satifaction with the Ludowici Roofing Tile. It has, in the 
 very trying changes of temperature of our cold winters, been found weather-proof, resisting 
 
 successfully, wind, snow and cold. 
 G. Mopkr, 
 
 Sauerlach. Architect. 
 
 
 
 We testify with pleasure that the large quantities of Ludowici Roofiing Tile that 
 we have bought during the last few years, have given entire satifaction. 
 
 Repairs have been only nominal, and although we have had severe storms, the rain and 
 snow has not entered any of the buildings. 
 
 Munich. BAVARIAN REAL ESTATE Co. 
 
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The Ludowici Roofing Tile have been in use on our buildings seven years. They 
 have not required the slightest repair, and have given entire satisfaction. 
 Those received four years ago for the distillery have not been in the least affected 
 by the vapors which had necessitated the renewal of previous roofs every year. 
 PRINCE SCHWARZENBERG. 
 Schwarzenberg. W. H. Hinkle, Chief Architect. 
 
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 WATER TOWER AT WORMS. 
 
Mecket & Co. 
 
 PRINTERS, 
 85 FirTH AVE., CHICAGO. 
 
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 Ludowici Grooved Roofing Tile.