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Favoring Brick, the End of Frame Buildings
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McDonald PA Outlook newspaper, May 23, 1896, page unknown:
Brick in McDonald
The era of frame buildings in McDonald is passing away. Brick buildings
are taking their place, and the better class of structures are going up,
both business houses and residences, are of brick. Two years ago there
was not a brick building in McDonald; it is probable that there is now
$200,000 invested in such buildings here now. No brick here has ever
suffered from fire, and the insurance rates on the brick blocks are less
than on frame buildings adjoining them. Brick house cost less than
frame; the cost of the brick walls is about $150 more on each $1,000
than wooden walls, and this is more than in the painting, the insurance
and the greater solidity of the brick.
It is not generally known that we have in McDonald a firm that keeps up
to the demand for brick here, besides shipping vast quantities of brick
to other places. NICHOLSON & ARTHURS, the proprietors of the West
End, have been in the brick-making business for a quarter of a century.
Mr. N. was one of the firm that made the brick with which all the
Panhandle Railroad tunnels are lined. This West End yard furnished the
brick for the McDonald school house, the HOLMES-GLADDEN, PLANCE-WILLIAMS
and GIFFIN-MOORHEAD blocks, and other buildings. They furnish the brick
for the J. P. SCOTT residence, a picture of which we give this week.
At this brickyard, fifteen men make 12,000 brick every day. The shale
rock, soapstone and clay, from which the brick are made, are taken out
of the hill behind the yard and ground up and molded into brick which
are as hard as iron after being burnt. Three grades of brick are
made--red building brick, chimney brick and foundation brick.
Messrs. NICHOLSON and ARTHURS hold themselves in readiness to undertake
any contract, large or small, for laying or furnishing brick for any
kind of building, chimneys or foundations, and to guarantee its
completion promptly and in a satisfactory manner. In addition to the
force at the brickyard, this firm keeps on hand a large force of
bricklayers in order to take care of building contracts. If you think of
putting up any kind of a building-business house or residence-- before
you begin see NICHOLSON & ARTHURS and let them show you for how
little money and in what quick time they can put you up a brick.
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