United Brick Corporation Brick Complex (Washington, D.C.)

USA / Maryland / Colmar Manor / Washington, D.C. / New York Ave Northeast (Service Road), 2801
 brickyard, place with historical importance, abandoned / shut down, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places
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Historic, now vacant brick production facility. The brick works opened in 1925, and was expanded several times through 1940 before closing in 1972. The round structures are brick silos with steel belts wrapped around them. Each has a door with a gate. There is also an exhaust tower as well as a mini rail system throughout the complex. The large square brick building contains roughly 30 brick lanes with mini rail track through them.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Brick_Corporation_Brick_Complex
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Coordinates:   38°54'58"N   76°58'3"W

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  • The arboretum is located on a former Army munitions depot. These are some of the remains.
  • This used to be United Brick Co. There is detailed information on their operations elsewhere on the internet, but they underwent some heavy expansion in the 1920s. at which time the tunnel kilns were built. the round structures are beehive kilns, an earlier and more labor intensive technology. Physical investigation of the site has revealed components with date stamps of 1894, so it is reasonable to assume they were in operation at this time. Also, based on physical remains, it appears that a central furnace produced hot gases which were delivered to individual kilns via underground passages. Check flickr for pictures of this place.
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