Bethesda Terrace Arcade: 15,876 hand-crafted Minton tiles restored to their 1860s grandeur in Central Park
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The Bethesda Terrace Arcade, designed in the 1860s by Jacob Wrey Mould with 15,876 hand-crafted encaustic tiles by Minton's Ltd., underwent a $7 million restoration completed in 2007 that painstakingly reinstalled all 16,000 tiles using custom steel backing plates, reopening the world's only ceiling featuring floor-style Minton tilework.
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