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... ONe of th' Absolute highest quality designs of th' 1880 - 1917 Era, these are Very HARd to find and Incredibly RARE... I grouped these together to show Stamping Variation Combos... We can protectively ship one, two or three together, ask about Larger purchases, we go out of our way to help th' Antique brick collector community, just A$k ! !!
... Using th' included numeric designation beside each through th' many detail photos, you can Choose which one you want and request it by number in your purchase... Apologies again for how expensive shipping has gotten... These are heavy, each brick weighs about five pounds! ... To protectively ship your brick we must use th' priority box option... if you wish to purchase more than one, b4 you pay multiple shipping charges for each of them, Request a ombined shipment total! ... we can combine them for shipment and adjust your invoice with a di$COuNted totaL $hipping charge... Oh, Oh! !! ... We also offer free shipping for local pick up, just let us know and we got ya covered...
... b4 The Famed 'American Industrial Age' Replaced Men with Machines, An Amazing Handmade Antique Brick Era THRIVED, iN Short Time, Many, Many Various different companies' Explosive ability to produce and ship to order a seemingly impossible combined supply of bricks for all purposes for decades b4 use of Th' Automobile had even begun! !! ... These almost provably impossible numbers, by far exceeding One Quadrillion in that time frame were all Mostly High Quality (with a only a very few companies from then being Mid to Low Quality) and provide hobbyists and collectors with Large Numbers of ith' Various Industries' individual designs by name, and in most cases, additional changes in th' Advertised 'Branding' applied to each brick, for many reasons... Productions Generated by Our Very Own Forefathers through th' multiple generations of th' 1880 and PRE 1880 era spanning through 1917 are likely, and a Unique Connection with our past... Of those Many different individual examples, each and every participant in this effort provides for an Excellent historic and storied example for th' Outstretched, and Trembling paw of th' EYES Wide dOubL dROPJAW headSPiNNiNG brick collector to deafeNiNGLY TRAiN WhiStL dARK bLACk SMOke out of both ears...
... i encourage MORE On foot, in town, at a group event and up to date online research for any and all of these you Ever find... Each company had developed such a Rich and Beauitful history adding to, if not Completely shaping th' Very Charm and character responsible for each and every town village and city th' Era could reach... Since th' Rise of th' Machine, and th' Machining Era, uniform design and practical inter-usage needs there after led quickly to an almost immediate plunge in Quality, and Competetive Profiteering established a permanent disconnection since for business-customer relations and other psychological economic issues such as Trust, to this very day... Below, is some information i was able to find about this Exact Example...
The term “Bradford Red” is synonymous with the brick buildings of Bradford, especially those in the historic district. It should also be synonymous with one remarkable man, William Hanley, a local contractor, brick manufacturer and oil producer who built nearly every brick building in the city.
Among the many buildings that were built by Hanley are the old Post Office on East Corydon Street (1910), the old City Hall on Kennedy Street (1897), the Carnegie Library on Congress Street (1901), St. Bernard Church on East Corydon Street (1893), the Schonblom building at 101 Main Street (1902), the Central Hose Fire Station on Chestnut Street (1909), the first Bell Telephone building at 11 Chestnut Street (1903), the Catarina building, now the home of Bradford’s United Way (1907), the Healey Petroleum Company building on Kennedy Street, now present day City Hall (1941), Hanley Office, now present day Kubiak building (1929), and the Tuna Valley Milk plant, now Wright Monument Works on East Main Street (1907). There are dozens more.
He also built Marilla Brook reservoir in 1898 and Hanley bricks were used to build the Emery Hotel (1929) and Radio City Music Hall in New York City (1937).
William Hanley was born on Christmas day, 1846 in Canada, the son of Irish immigrants, Dennis and Mary Hanley. He immigrated to the United States at age 22, became a naturalized citizen in 1876, and settled in Oil City, where he owned a successful planing mill and lumber yard. And he began to build — schools, churches, opera houses, and homes throughout Venango County.
Like many others, the success of the oil fields in the Bradford area soon lured him northward and he and his wife Johanna came to Bradford in 1880, settling on Jackson Avenue. Here, eight children were born. Five survived to adulthood.
Later, interviewed on their 50th wedding anniversary in 1930, Hanley said “we came to Bradford and I bought this lot, 44 Jackson avenue, from Tom Kennedy on which I erected a wooden home. We have lived in this spot for fifty years. Fifty years doesn’t seem so long ago and if time could be moved back fifty years, I would still be courting the same sweetheart.”
By September 1880, Hanley had drilled his first well on Lot 171 of the Quintuple tract. By 1890 he owned sixty-five producing wells in the Bradford field and while he made a small fortune in oil, it was the purchase of the Bradford Pressed Brick company in 1898 that created his wealth and reputation.
The 1903 New York Industrial Recorder reported “the works are located at Lewis Run, PA and have a capacity of 5,000,000 bricks a year. The finest shales and clays to be found in the world are there, dug in practically unlimited quantities and the bricks turned out are pronounced by experts as the best made. Progressive, public spirited and practical, William Hanley is a potential factor in the commercial life of Bradford and a citizen of which she (th' writer?) is proud.”
The name Bradford Pressed Brick was changed to Bradford Brick in 1920 and changed again to Bradford Brick and Tile Company in 1921. Hanley rehabilitated the old Lewis Run red face brick to lower production costs by junking the obsolete and inefficient equipment. He had become convinced that the tunnel kiln method of manufacturing face brick could be practical and accomplished at a greater savings in terms of labor, fuel, etc.
The first continuous railroad tunnel kiln ever to be successfully operated in a face brick plant was the one first installed at Lewis Run Plant No. 3 in 1920. The following year, a second and more improved kiln was placed in operation and the capacity of the two plants was increased to 3,000,000 bricks per month.
In 1925, a plant was constructed in Summerville, specializing in buff and gray brick and by 1930, over 100,000,000 bricks were produced yearly by the two Hanley Brick plants. The Summerville Plant also manufactured white glazed brick (which can be seen on the old Hanley Company building, now the Bradford Water Authority in the Kubiak building on the corner of Kennedy and Boylston Streets) and glazed face brick guaranteed not to crack, spall, peel, flake or craze in blue, green, tan, speckled and jet black.
Hanley was also a philanthropist, giving $250,000 to the city in 1924 to create a community park and playground on the old Kennedy Street cemetery site. The city named the new park “Hanley Park” in his honor.
He was a devout Catholic and was honored with the Knighthood of St. Gregory, conferred on him by the Rt. Rev. John Mark Gannon, Bishop of Erie, at St. Peter’s Cathedral, Erie on November 4, 1925. The honor is bestowed upon Catholic men and women in recognition of their personal service to the Catholic Church and the examples they set in their communities. A personal letter from Pope Pius XI accompanied the award.
He was also honored with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from St. Bonaventure college on June 7, 1928.
William Hanley died on April 18, 1933 at age 89 from complications following an operation in the Bradford hospital. He was a member of the Bradford Club, the Country Club, Valley Hunt club, North Penn Golf Club, the Board of Commerce, and a life member of the American Red Cross and the Congressional Club of Washington, D.C. He was also a fourth-degree member of the Knight of Columbus.
The funeral, held at St. Bernard Church, was officiated by Bishop Gannon of Erie. Hanley had nineteen honorary pallbearers, fifteen ushers, and ten visiting priests. The church was filled to capacity.
An eulogy in the Bradford Era declared “Mr. Hanley was one of the earth’s truly noble. His earnest, intense interest in whatever he undertook bore fruit and he attained to planes in business, civic and religious circles to which the vast majority can only longingly aspire… As donor of Hanley Park and in many other benefactions he has left an invisible monument that will be cherished by posterity.”
Hanley is buried in the family mausoleum in St. Bernard Cemetery. His wife, Johanna, died the next January and is buried at his side.