About 25 years ago I visited a friend who had just moved into an apartment building in an old section of Pittsburgh. The building probably dated from the early 1900s.
When I went inside I couldn’t help but gasp a little to see that the floor in the entry way was done in swastika tile. It didn’t just appear that way—the design was deliberate. Even though he was a big lib, we both got a good laugh out of it. I wish I had taken a picture.
When the building was built, of course, the symbol didn’t have that connotation. But I’m sure they’ve replaced the floor since.
Back around 1980, there were two houses on SE Division Street in Portland OR that had swastikas built into their chimneys in contrasting colored bricks. The houses were probably built in the 20s or 30s. I haven’t been back to that town in a long time, but sometimes I wonder if the chimneys are still there. SE Division, near 24th or thereabouts, one on each side of the street, if anyone cares to look. I still have photos of both.