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…and, 43:164 – Brattle St. as example of, 43:37 (see also Brattle Street [Cambridge]) – brick used in, see Brick and brickmaking – and “building list” (of L. L. Howe),…
…references to brick, notably the Tower of Babel. There were also a good many ancient temples that were built of brick. The first recorded example of brickwork comes from the…
…bricks on the ground do not make for the best walkways. I have slipped on leaves on brick, and slipped on ice on brick, and sometimes slipped on brick because…
…by World War I, most of the smaller brick companies had been consolidated into the New England Brick Company (or NEBCO for short). Who worked in these claypits and brickyards?…
…smaller brick companies had been consolidated into the New England Brick Company (NEBCO for short). NEBCO’s brickyards were mostly laid out along Rindge Avenue and down Sherman Street; the brick…
…housing and buildings for the Harvard campus. In 1858, around 187,000 bricks were produced each day in North Cambridge. That’s roughly 24 million bricks in one season! An average-size house…
…and the brickyards springing up throughout North Cambridge prospered as they met that demand; by 1858, the neighborhood’s factories were producing approximately 187,000 bricks per day. Beginning in the 1890s…
…remodeled the house in 1916-17. Chandler planned the room to represent the house’s earliest Colonial architecture. He laid down a brick floor when he found original bricks under nineteenth century…
Just how big of a role did brick play in the history of North Cambridge? Join Cambridge resident Josie Kuchta for an exploration of the topic. As a recent Wellesley…
…and carriage factories, and, after vast beds of clay were discovered, acres covered in the pugging-mills, chimneys, and kilns of a brickworks that turned out most of the bricks that…