A Standard Devoro and a Standard Madera

These two 1950s Standards are very different. The first has a long flush connection and the bowl is shaped like a circle. It has a gray logo. The second has a short flush connection, elongated oval shaped bowl and the gray logo. The mystery is, why these two variations in the same bathroom? This restroom is OLD, it dates back to the 1920s when this college was a women's college. In fact, there is one door in the hallway that says "restroom" and inside are doors to a women's and men's room. It used to be one big women's room.

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[ClassicTVMan81]

This indeed is a strange bathroom --- especially after its 1950s overhaul, what with the Devoro and its long flush connection while the equally-vintage Madera uses a normal-length flush connection.

[ILoveVintageToilets]

@ClassicTVMan81 It really puzzled me. How could they possibly have installed such different models at the same time on purpose? Of course, perhaps they were installed within a few years of each other if one toilet was malfunctioning. Lots of explanations, but we will never know. Very unusual, I agree. I was SO pleased to catch a Devoro though, I have always wondered what a Devoro looked like!

[MrBrombomb]

The first toilet is a round bowl version of the Madera. My highschool which was built in 1958, had this toilet in the bathrooms. I don't know exactly when American Standard dropped the round bowl Madera, but I believe that it was probably sometime in the late 1960s.

[ILoveVintageToilets]

@MrBrombomb Thanks for the information. I much prefer the round bowl version to the elongated version. I think the flush is nicer and the shape too.

[TheSRESC]

is this at Harvard?

[ILoveVintageToilets]

@TheSRESC Nope, it is at Notre Dame College in Baltimore. Why do you ask?

[ClassicTVMan81]

American Standard also made the Purimo. It was again similar to both the Madera and the Devoro except that it had a lip dip at the very edge of the bowl.

[MrBrombomb]

@ClassicTVMan81 Thanks for the correction and the new info. The Baby Devoro was & is available with a tank or flushometer. A Church that I used to go in Stewartsville, NJ had 1950s Baby Devoros in the men's room and ladies room(one  in each bathroom). The regular toilets were 1950s Kohler Wellworths.

[ClassicTVMan81]

@ILoveVintageToilets

However, the flush valve on the Devoro is still 100% original whereas the Madera has had its handle changed since at least the 1970s.

[ClassicTVMan81]

@MrBrombomb

The "round-front Madera" is the Devoro. American Standard dropped the standard height Devoro and the 13" high Devoro, Jr. in January 1979. The only Devoro variation in production as of late is the 10" high Baby Devoro.

[ClassicTVMan81]

@ILoveVintageToilets

If you watch Flushmate01's video of an old restroom in Southampton, MA, that restroom originally donned three elongated 1930s-'40s vintage Kohler Penryns and four of the same with round-front bowls. Two of the four round-front Penryns were replaced in the 1980s or '90s with American Standard Cadet 16" high units.

[ClassicTVMan81]

The 1st toilet is indeed a model Devoro F-2243 while the 2nd is the common Madera F-2223.

[ILoveVintageToilets]

@TheJoey1978 Congrats on the new camera! Can't wait to see those Santons!

[Wolfi561987]

..nice design of the bowl!!