Speedwell

This North Avenue building has not only fancy brickwork and a classic (egg and dart?) design at the top, it also has terracotta plaques depicting the Speedwell flower. In nature, this flower is tiny, but its shape is intriguing - three larger petals and one smaller at the bottom. It also has delicate shades of blue, sometimes with darker rays as seen in this old Plainfield Plaintalker post. There are lovely patches of Speedwell in Cedar Brook Park every Spring.

Here's a detail of a very ornate East Front Street facade:

Here's a less fancy one:

And a plain one:

Look up the next time you are downtown and see what early Plainfielders were able to do with bricks, stone and terracotta.

--Bernice