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The Harbison-Walker Refractories Company is a national historic district and historic refractory brick manufacturing complex which is located in Mount Union in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It originated as the Star Firebrick Company on March 7, 1865, with Articles of Association by a group of Pittsburgh and Allegheny residents.
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The original portion of the building, constructed during 1907 and 1908, is six stories tall, buff-colored Roman brick with steel frame, with concrete floors and roof. Fronting on East Carson street, the main commercial road in the South Side Flats, it is 108 ft wide by 116 ft deep, with terra cotta first-story wall cladding and cornice trim work.
Ancient Roman bricks had a general size of 1½ Roman feet by 1 Roman foot, but common variations up to 15 inches existed. Other brick sizes in Ancient Rome included 24" x 12" x 4", and 15" x 8" x 10". Ancient Roman bricks found in France measured 8" x 8" x 3". The Constantine Basilica in Trier is constructed from Roman bricks 15" square by 1½ ...
The Econo brick also was a brown brick that had a manganese additive for coloring. [1] By the mid-1970s, the Hudson River brick industry was reduced to 2 plants: Powell and Minnock and the former Sutton and Sutterly Brick and Roah Nook Brick Companies. [2] The last major investment at Powell & Minnock was a new molded-brick plant, built in 1989.
The company manufactured terra cotta products (pipe and tiles), building bricks, and pavers (known as "Patton Pavers") from 1893 until it closed in 1968. Bricks made there were used in the construction of the Panama Canal, and the pavers were used around the Eiffel Tower in France. The products were made from clay excavated from the area.
It was one of the first brick-built churches in Poland [4] Sandomierz: Church of St. Jacob 13th century Strzelno: Church of the Holy Trinity: 12th century-1216 Rotunda of St. Prokop Brick parts 15th or 16th century Romanesque and brick, but no Romanesque brick: The Romanesque original parts, erected since before 1133, are of red granite ...
Sayre and Fisher Brick Company was established in 1850 by James R. Sayre, Jr., and Peter Fisher, [4] [5] and later became one of the USA's leading manufacturers of building brick, fire brick, and enamel brick. In 1876 the area around the village then known as Wood's Landing was renamed Sayreville, after the company's co-founder.