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A new "Forum" format for our
Visitors' Comments/Collections/Brix Pix Page. Collecting old brick is a growing hobby. Some call it a crazy hobby, but to find, touch and own a piece of history can be very rewarding...and fun. This web site has several main sections:
Recently, we've added some new specialized pages and sections:
Dan Mosier has created a fine web site on California Bricks and has a great page all about Collecting Bricks. For true brickophiles there's the International Brick Collectors Association. IBCA members don't buy bricks, they swap them. They collect all kinds of brick: building brick, paving brick, fire brick, as long as they are branded with names, designs, patterns, pictures, or numbers. Bricks were produced in many areas around the United States and Canada where craftsmen brought their skills from Europe to places that had the right type of clay suitable for brickmaking and good access to transportation. HUTTON bricks along the Hudson River at Kingston Point Beach, July, 2006One such area, the Hudson River Valley in New York State, with its abundance of clay and an excellent water link to New York City, churned out millions of bricks, mostly near the turn of the 20th century. In Haverstraw, in Rockland County, NY, there is the Haverstraw Brick Museum. In the 1880’s there were over 40 brickyards in the Haverstraw area. Many buildings in New York City are made with bricks manufactured in Haverstraw. For more information on Hudson River Brickmaking, Click Here. At one time, the state of Connecticut had more than 200 brickmaking companies. As a result of past glaciation periods, many clay deposits dot the state and many of these were exploited to make bricks. The history of brickmaking in the state is explored in a special section of the Connecticut Museum of Mining and Mineral Science.
From the National Building Museum's American Brick Collection:
We often get asked where old bricks can be found. The best places are former brickyards, construction sites, abandoned building sites, demolition sites, dump sites, land-fill and beaches.
Just a few of the many bricks found by website visitor Jason in the Bronx, NY
Bricks found at demolition site, Pilgrim Psychiatric Center,
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You will also find many new additions to our on-line "Olde Brick Store." Many hard-to-find books on Hudson Valley history and lore are there and some are at special discounts.
For example, Carl Carmer's The Hudson (Rivers of America) is available used in good condition for as low as $1.00.
Arthur G. Adams' The Hudson River Guidebook is on sale for as low as $4.40.
Here's a direct link to The Olde Brick Store. Happy Bricking in 2008!
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