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Jenkins Brick Company, Plant No. 2, Furnace Street, Montgomery, Montgomery County, AL
LocationFurnace Street,
Montgomery, AL
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER AL-185
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N953).
Building/structure dates:
1899
Building/structure dates:
1906
Building/structure dates:
1910
Building/structure dates:
1912
Building/structure dates:
1924
Building/structure dates:
1925
Significance: The most distinctive feature of the site today is the set of twelve remaining Minter System down draft kilns. Constructed in 1923, 1925, and 1941, the kilns are part of a waste-heat reuse system that brought heat from cooling kilns back to the dryer tunnels and to other kilns in various stages of the burning process. In use in various parts of the United States and Canada, Minter kilns were most popular with Southern brickmakers. These are some of the last of the Minter System kilns still in existence.
Subjects
BrickBrick Industry
Related Names
Minter System
Jenkins Brick Company
Architectural Stone Products
O'Connor, Richard, Historian
Dubin, Elizabeth, Delineator
Holman, Missy, Delineator
May, Joshua, Delineator
Goode, Sarah, Delineator
Deanovic, Boris, Delineator
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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