Thanks to all who offered references to historic kilns. There has
actually been a considerable amount of research in the past year or so on
kilns in the midwest that you all may not be aware of, since they are
contract archaeology reports. Leah Rogers and Fred Finney are presently
completing work on the Bonaparte kiln, a ceramic vessel production site
in Van Buren Co., Iowa. Christopher Schoen and Peter Bleed last year
finished the Lincoln Pottery Works, in Lincoln Nebraska, and Kelly
Hamilton of the State Historical Society in Madison Wisconsin did a study
of the Zenrenner Brick Works. My own study was of a tile manufacturing
site, and due to an over zealous landowner, it adds little to the study
of kiln architecture.
 
Again, thanks to all who wrote.
 
Kris [log in to unmask]