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…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…
Read More…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),…
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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…
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…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…
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…time – 10,000 years ago when ice left behind vast deposits of clay in North Cambridge, then fast-forwards 9,800 years to the neighborhood’s brickmaking heyday, and the dump left in…
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…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?…
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DIY: You can download a PDF of this walking tour here and follow along with Joe Galusha’s audio commentary below: http://historycambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Walking-Tour-Audio.mp3 Thursday, July 13, 2017, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM…
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…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…
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…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…
Read More…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…
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