Ron and All

To Ron May's list of uses of clinker brick we can add just from 
Moscow:  university buildings (the one at the U of Idaho housing 
anthropology), churches (married in one), complete homes, businesses 
(funeral home), a WWI memorial, and innumerable other uses.  In parts of 
Idaho you can fairly well predict the architect based on the use (and 
over-use) of clinker brick.  A thesis is waiting to be written.

Rick


At 12:43 AM 10/14/2005, you wrote:
>Mary,
>
>Clinker bricks were popular in the Arts & Crafts Movement for  ornamenting
>fireplaces, chimneys, garden walls, and some walkways. As you  mentioned, 
>they
>were over-heated bricks that blackened, distorted and bubbled.  Some Mexican
>brick makers deliberately create clinkers for the American market,  as 
>literally
>no American brick makers produce clinkers due to building  codes.
>
>Ron May
>Legacy 106, Inc.