Frank
and
Jane Clement Brick
Museum - Table of Contents
Frank
and Jane
Clement Brick Museum
6291 Mile Strip
Road, Orchard Park, NY
Visitors:
Free
viewing by appointment only |
United States Brick Companies
Most bricks have been shellacked and color-highlighted
Native American
Native American bricks
Native American bricks and terra cotta
Georgia: Macon - Cherokee Brick & Tile Co.
Georgia: Macon
Georgia: Macon - Cherokee Brick & Tile Co.
Logo: WEW deliver a trainload a day
Georgia: Macon - Cherokee Brick & Tile Co.
Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut: Middletown ... Made by Kane Brick Co. for workers at the Arms Company ... Very rare
Connecticut
Florida
Florida
Florida: Pensacola ... Bonifay: Slave-made 1790
Florida
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Georgia
Illinois
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
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois ... Shawmut Line, Pennsylvania Railroad
Illinois
Illinois
Indiana
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.
Indiana
Indiana
Iowa: Puritan Brick Co., (near Des Moines)
Mold (top) and brick (below)
Notice reverse letters in the mold
Kansas
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
Kansas
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Louisiana
Maine
Maine: Portland: Stone Ware Co. collection
Massachusetts
Massachusetts: Russell
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Michigan
Michigan building bricks
Michigan building bricks
Mississippi
Mississippi
Missouri
Missouri: Deepwater Clay Co.: 2 bricks, including the only known Mark Twain fireplace brick
Missouri: The only known Mark Twain fireplace brick - perhaps the most prized brick in the Clement collection.
Missouri: St. Louis: Parker & Russell Mine & Manufacturing Co.
Missouri
Missouri ... Other side of bricks illustrated below:
Missouri
Missouri
Missouri
Missouri
Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska
New Jersey
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: Woodbridge
New Jersey(?)
C. 1900 George Washington brick found on the Delaware River.
New Mexico
New Mexico
New York
New York: Alfred: Celadon Terra Cotta Co. (history online July 2014)
New York: Corning
New York: Corning
New York: Elmira: J.P.W. & Son
New York: Hornellsville
Town no longer exists
Rare bricks
New York: Horseheads, Consolidated Brick Co.
Playing cards detail below:
New York: Horseheads: Consolidated Brick Co.
New York: Hudson River Valley
Earliest bricks of the Hudson River area.
C. 1860 when bricks were first marked
New York: Hudson River Region
New York: LaSalle
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
New York: Utica
New York: Wilson
Hand forged nails
Frog: primitive hand made with heel of hand
New York City / Hudson Valley / New Jersey industrial fire bricks
New York City / Hudson Valley / New Jersey industrial fire bricks
New York
New York: Albany
New York: Utica
New York: Troy
New York
New York
North Carolina
North Carolina: Ashville: Guastavino bricks from his estate in Ashville.
North Carolina: Ashville: Guastavino bricks from his estate in Ashville ... Leftover bricks.
Bottom brick detailed below:
North Carolina: Ashville: Guastavino bricks found on his estate in Ashville.
North Carolina
North Carolina
North Dakota
C. 1890 Rapid City, Dakota Territory collection.
Rare bricks.
"Hebron" is a North Dakota town.
Ohio
Ohio: Akron: Heart Brick Co.
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.
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Oklahoma
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
Oregon: E. J. Jeffrey Co.
Note two different spellings. Company started in 1867.
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
Brick used in the interior of the Larkin Administration Building
Pennsylvania: Chestnut Ridge White Brick Co., Chestnut Ridge, PA
Found in Smoke's Creek near Milestrip Road
See photo and information
Pennsylvania: Glen-Gery Co.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Bufalo Man" Native American remedy, Corry, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
"Hiawatha," Corry, Pennsylvania
"Hiawatha," Corry, Pennsylvania
"Hiawatha," Corry, Pennsylvania
"Hiawatha," Corry, Pennsylvania ... Note: label misspelled
Pennsylvania ... "Gettysburg 1868" purchased at the President Dwight D. Eisenhauer Farm
Pennsylvania ... Heinz Roof Tile & Brick yard ... Before the company turned to foods ... 150 years
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Rhode Island
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Carolina
South Carolina
South Carolina
South Dakota
South Dakota
Tennessee
Tennessee
Texas
Texas: Austin: leaves
Texas: Gray Rock.
C. 1850
Texas: Houston
Texas: Sugar Land Prison. Convict-made brick.
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia: Chilhowie Paving & Sidewalk Co.
Note misspelled upper right brick
Virginia: Malvern Hill Civil War Commemorative brick
Virginia
Washington
Washington
Washington
Washington D. C.
Washington D. C.
West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
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. ... Bottom center and right: facing women with parasol
Wisconsin: Green Bay Brick Co.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin: Green Bay Brick Co.
Photos and their arrangement © 2004 Chuck LaChiusa
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