Over the years, the Chazen has acquired 21 objects that were originally produced as architectural decoration. These include Byzantine floor mosaics of the fifth century AD from Syria; a cast iron fragment from the façade of Louis Sullivan's Gage Building in Chicago designed in 1898 and elevator grilles he designed for the Chicago Stock Exchange in 1893-94; a window depicting the Tree of Life designed in 1904 by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo; and, most recently, a colorful ceramic spirit wall dating from the Ming dynasty in China. Although small in number, this is a pedagogically important subset of the Chazen's applied and decorative arts collection.

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