Frank and Jane Clement Brick
Museum - Table of Contents
Frank and Jane Clement Brick Museum
6291 Mile Strip Road, Orchard Park, NY
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United States Bricks
Most bricks have been shellacked and color-highlighted
Native American bricks
Native American bricks and terra cotta
California: Wilson
Hand forged nails
Frog: primitive hand made with heel of hand
Georgia: Macon - Cherokee Brick & Tile Co.
Georgia: Macon - Cherokee Brick & Tile Co.
Logo: WEW deliver a trainload a day
Illinois: Anderson
Mostly 1880s
Illinois: 1893 World's Fair, the Columbian Exposition
Many of the personnel who created this exposition were hired by Buffalo for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition.
Illinois: 1893 World's Fair, the Columbian Exposition
Illinois: Taylorville: leaves
Illinois: Chicago: Tiffany
Since letter"N" is reversed in the left brick, probably made for Tiffany
Glazed white on exterior
Indiana: Flora. Wildcat Creek Brick Co.
Upper left: Snow anchor in the shape of a bird.
The 2 star bricks are made from the star anchor in upper right.
Iowa: Puritan Brick Co., (near Des Moines)
Mold (top) and brick (below)
Notice reverse letters in the mold
Kansas/California: US Leavenworth and San Quentin State Prisons convict-made bricks
Kansas: Seneca Brick Co.
Upper brick: Seneca Co.-made brick for Buffalo, Kansas (new brick)
Lower brick: Clay cracked before it was kiln-baked
Kansas: sunflowers
Maine: Portland: Stone Ware Co. collection
Massachusetts: Russell
Michigan building bricks
Michigan building bricks
Missouri: Deepwater Clay Co.: 2 bricks, including the only known Mark Twain fireplace brick
The only known Mark Twain fireplace brick - perhaps the most prized brick in the Clement collection.
Missouri: St. Louis: Parker & Russell Mine & Manufacturing Co.
New Jersey: Blue Ridge Brick Co.
Top: Brick from the Newark Prudential Building
Middle: Newark Prudential Building pavement marker
Bottom: Salesman's sample
New Jersey: Sayre & Fisher, Sayerville
Identical brick used in the Darwin Martin House.
This brick Found at Gannon University, Erie Pennsylvania.
Red coloring added for emphasis.
New Jersey: Sayre & Fisher, Sayerville - a close up view
New Jersey(?)
C. 1900 George Washington brick found on the Delaware River.
Ashville, North Carolina: Guastavino brick from his estate in Ashville.
New York: Hornellsville
Town no longer exists
Rare bricks
New York: Hudson River Valley
Earliest bricks of the Hudson River area.
C. 1860 when bricks were first marked
New York City / Hudson Valley / New Jersey industrial fire bricks
New York City / Hudson Valley / New Jersey industrial fire bricks
C. 1870
Company was in business for 10 years.
Bricks found in Niagara Falls in the New York Central Hotel privy.
New York: Staten Island companies
North Dakota
C. 1890 Rapid City, Dakota Territory collection.
Rare bricks.
"Hebron" is a North Dakota town.
Ohio: Charles Taylor and Sons Refractories.
Charles Taylor immigrated from England in 1850 and began working in the Bromley Pottery in Cincinnati. He eventually married Bromley's daughter. In the late 1850s he found flint fireclay in Kentucky, and in 1859 made the first firebricks in the region in an old brewery in Ashland, KY. These bricks proved of good quality, and about 1862 he began a brick works in Cincinnati that would exist for over 100 years.
The high grade fireclays were about 90 miles upriver from Cincinnati and were barged downriver. The clays were found in the hills bordering the Tygart River. Locals referred to this river as the "Tiger" River. It is believed that this is the origin of the TIGER brands.
Taylor also had a plant in Anniston, AL and one in New Cumberland, WV, but these were shortlived. In 1902 or thereabouts they purchased the Tygart River Firebrick Company at South Shore, KY. It is likely that the TIGER brand was already being used before this time. The Taylor's (sic?) sold the company to National lead following WWII.
Oklahoma collection - #1
"Durnant" bricks are rare.
The "Pawhuska" bricks are sidewalk bricks.
"Weleetka"is an Indian name.
Oklahoma collection - #2
Top right is a sidewalk brick.
Three bricks at left are all McAlester and McAlister Co. bricks. Note the two different spellings.
The "Pawhuska"bricks, at right, are sidewalk bricks.
Oregon: E. J. Jeffrey Co.
Note two different spellings. Company started in 1867.
Pennsylvania: Chestnut Ridge White Brick Co., Chestnut Ridge, PABrick used in the interior of the Larkin Administration Building
Found in Smoke's Creek near Milestrip Road
See photo and information
Texas: Austin: leaves
Texas: Gray Rock.
C. 1850
Texas: Houston
Texas: Sugar Land Prison. Convict-made brick.
Virginia: Chilhowie Paving & Sidewalk Co.
Note misspelled upper right brick
Virginia: Malvern Hill Civil War Commemorative brick
Wisconsin: C. 1840 Green Bay, Wisconsin Brick Co. building bricks.
Top brick depicts polo stick ... 1 of 3 known Bicycle bricks ... 2 band leader depictions ... Bottom left brick: Wisconsin, Brick, Union symbol, Tile Co.
Photos and their arrangement © 2004 Chuck LaChiusa
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