Many of the buildings in Trenton sport tiles produced by Trenton manufactures. One of the more elaborate ones is the Kelsey Building, now part of Thomas Edison State University. The building was named originally for Henry C. Kelsey, New Jersey’s Secretary of State from 1870 to 1897, who donated it as a memorial to his wife. The building is elaborately decorated with Mueller Mosaic Company tiles. Many of the artisans in Trenton’s ceramics industry were educated in this building when it was the Trenton School of Industrial Arts. The faculty included many of the leading artists and mechanics in the business, such as tile master Herman Carl Mueller, who was a trustee of the school, and Lenox China’s long-time chief designer Frank Holmes. Walter Scott Lenox was one of the school’s founders. Architect Cass Gilbert copied Florence’s Strozzi Palace and Mueller’s tile motifs were derived appropriately from Renaissance ornament.