Hall & Garrison 1910 - Warren-Ehret Company Photographs, Hagley Archive

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Hexamer General Surveys, Volume 8, Plate 690

Bromley Philadelphia Atlas 1895

Hand Book Master Builder's Exchange 1887

Scientific American May 1898

Scientific American

September 1897

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DEC-CO-RE-0.

A very useful invention of late years for decorative and building purposes is Dec-co-re-o, devised and patented by Hall& Garrison, of Philadelphia, Pa. The nature of the material is such that it can be utilized for numerous purposes of decoration in the building and furnishing of a house, and, once placed in position, will last as long as the building itself. As it has long passed the experimental stage, the above prediction is fully warranted.

It is applicable for grilles over doors and windows, stair balustrades, for partitions for desks and bank railings, for constructing cozy corners in rooms, for elaborate ceiling and wall decorations, and any imaginable decorative purpose in the construction and furnishing of a home,as it can be worked in to any form and shape suitable to any purpose. Any unsightly large opening in a building can be, by a Dec-co-re-o Grille, with pole and curtain attached, turned into a feature of great beauty, and the endless variety of ornamental lines removes at once the monotony and tiresome effect produced by spindles or other automatic machine work. Large rooms have been divided in two by a beautifully designed grille in Dec-co-re-o with a curtain underneath, and stores have been partitioned off with it to suit the requirements of the working force. A music-room can be partitioned off from the parlor with a Decco-re-o Grille and curtain, as may be required, and more successfully than with any other material or effect. It is also applicable to steamship work,and makes a most beautiful decoration when applied in this manner. All of the grilles for transoms, and other portions of the fine steamships St. Paul and St. Louis, were made of this Dec-co-re-o, and furnished by Hall & Garrison to the International Steamship Co. direct, and they received the highest praise from the company, the builders,and the architects for the magnificent work that they had furnished, and for the beautiful effect it gave to the boats.

Its durability is derived from the construction of its base, which is a thin board composed of a number of very thin layers of hardwood, glued firmly together crossgrained, which insures an indestructible material for that purpose.On this base, plastic ornaments are cemented either on one side or on both sides, as may be required; the wood remaining between the ornaments is then removed, thereby forming a plastic perforated carved grille of any design desired, either carved only on one side or both sides, as the case requires.

Messrs. Hall & Garrison also manufacture plastic ornaments for interior decoration on canvas, which can be pasted, cemented, or glued into position by any paper hanger or carpenter, besides mouldings for picture frames in endless variety, and in this line they have been the leaders for many years past. They also are large contractors for wood finish in houses, and the Chelsea and Central Park Flats, Holland House, and Belgravia, in New York; Geo. W. Childs' Mansion at Bryn Mawr; Jas. P. Scott's house,and Hotel Walton, at Philadelphia; Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Building at Baltimore; Shoreham at Washington, and United States Building at Harrisburg, besides numerous other buildings all over the country, are monuments of their skill in these lines.