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On January 2, 1883, General Montgomery C. Meigs informs the Secretary of the Interior Henry M. Teller that the Washington Brick Machine Company has signed a contract to provide 600,000 pressed bricks at $10.93 per thousand and 9 million common bricks at $7.93 per thousand for the new Pension Office Building (now the National Building Museum) on ...
The historic Lowell M. Hidden and W. Foster Hidden houses have helped shaped the face of Vancouver, Washington. [2] The Hidden family has been present in Vancouver since the 1860s with Lowell Mason Hidden being the first to arrive from New England in 1864. [3] In 1871, Lowell M. Hidden started the Hidden Brick Company.
The factory in Taylor, Washington, was near heavy glacial clay deposits in an 80-foot (24 m) high bank used to make the brick, and could produce 100,000 bricks a day in 1907. [3] Hydraulic mining was used to extract clay from the hill. [4] The factory produced 58 million bricks in 1917. [5]
Schools in Vancouver, Washington (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Vancouver, Washington" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Centralia, Washington: 1857 Residence New Dungeness Light Station: Sequim, Washington: 1857 Lighthouse Davidson House: Steilacoom, Washington: 1858 Residence T. G. Richards and Company Store: Bellingham, Washington: 1858 Commercial Oldest brick building in the state built with brick from San Francisco Colonel Granville & Henrietta Haller House
The construction of the house is unique in that a concrete slab was poured, then jacked up. A second slab was poured and brick walls were erected. The first slab was rested on the bricks and the second slab was jacked up with a final pouring of the third slab which formed the foundation. 1958 Kenneth Gardner, architect Washington Hotel (Hotel ...
Bricks in the metallurgy and glass industries are often used for lining furnaces, in particular refractory bricks such as silica, magnesia, chamotte and neutral (chromomagnesite) refractory bricks. This type of brick must have good thermal shock resistance, refractoriness under load, high melting point, and satisfactory porosity .
Mica's economy has been dominated by brick making since the town's early days. The current factory is owned by Mutual Materials [5] and located on the site of American Fire Brick, founded by Mica pioneers the late 1800s. [6] The American Firebrick Company campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [7]