Interior view of factory floor where men work at machines at Colgate-Palmolive Company, Toilet Articles Building in Kansas City, KS, designed by Albert Kahn Associates completed c. 1951. “The big structure, with a frontage of 365 feet and a width of 165 feet, has a floor area of 19,000 square feet … Constructed at a cost of $4,000,000, the plant continues the company’s expansion program started here after World War II,”—The New York Times, Friday, October 12, 1951.
Interior view of the Pantheon with columns, niches and floor. "The second register has blind windows emphasized by their moldings. (See below.) The polychrome marbles were imported from all over the Roman Empire. The floor design is in squares and circles of colored granites, marbles, and porphyry--a kind of vast checkerboard,"--by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University.