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Eric, thank you very much for these notes, which I have found very helpful. <br />By chance, the Monadanok (I'm guessing at the spelling, too) featured in a Briti***V programme about building styles shown here only a couple of months ago. It is very Art Deco, and as you note (and the programme made some point of showing us), the walls at ground level are indeed several feet thick, reducing with each floor and as the load decreases. The ground floor had to yield as much area to brick as to working space, so it is not a very 'efficient' building. <br />The cinder block inner skin did not seem to take much hold here until well after World War II, which I guess explains our continued use of old-established interlocking bond patterns until quite recent times. If the majority of North American 'brick' buildings, even older ones, are all-stretcher or stretcher with an occasional header row and the cinder block inner skin is common, then presumably there is a steel girder structure behind the facade and this is doing almost all the load-bearing. <br />Thanks again for your contribution, which has certainly advanced my knowledge. By the way, the standard British brick is more or less identical in dimensions to its US counterpart - so it seems I can happily use brick sheets, both printed and moulded, that are available over here.
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