The Tile Heritage Foundation is an

archival library A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a vir ...

and resource center dedicated to the preservation of

ceramic A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porcelain ...

surfacing materials in the United States. It is located in

Healdsburg, California Healdsburg is a city located in Sonoma County, in California's Wine Country. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 11,254. Owing to its three most important wine-producing regions (the Russian River, Dry Creek, and Alexander Valley ...

. Open to the public by appointment. It was founded in 1987 by Joseph Taylor and Sheila Menzies. The archives catalog information about historic and contemporary tile makers in the United States, and maintains a collection of over 4,000 historic and contemporary tiles, all of them donated. The Foundation is a member supported non-profit organization. Sponsorship, grants, gifts and membership as well as contemporary tile sales support the ongoing work of education, publishing and archiving. They have published works on the history of tile in the US.

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* {{authority control Healdsburg, California Business and industry archives Archives in the United States Museums in the San Francisco Bay Area Museums in Sonoma County, California Ceramics museums 1987 establishments in California Decorative arts museums in the United States Libraries established in 1987