Isn't this unique??

Mad Dog_2

Mad Dog_2

There are a few blocks of these 100 yr old homes in my Village. Each Chimney is a little different.  Some have crosses built in..My Architect buddy said the Style is
"Old  Lexington."  I wish I did mt Chimney like this 23 yrs ago.  Mad Dog  🐕 

Big Ed_4

Klinker bricks , when a stack goes into the kiln to bake . The center sometimes over cooked.. They were freebies for the masons

EdTheHeaterMan

Mad Dog_2 said:

Isn't this unique??

Not really Matt.
You just need to find an Italian mason
That hired Irish workers.
With a French CSR that could sell the work as Art.

A truly international company.

Is that inappropriate in the 2020s?

It was funny in the 1970s

Edit: You could practise rock climbing at home!

Alan (California Radiant) Forbes

The trick is to make haphazard look intentional. Very nicely done!

retiredguy

That chimney looks like a "work of art". I am impressed.

Mad Dog_2

Right?  Klinker bricks are b
Cool 😎" Mad Dog 

mattmia2

i've seen a lot from about the 20's through the 50's. the klinker bricks are usually used for structural things where they won't be visible. one of the university buildings built in the 50's has the klinker bricks of all the styles in my mom's neighborhood that was built in the 50's in the brick walls forming the rough space that an auditorium is built within.

MikeL_2

  I've seen a bit of that wonderful type of novelty brick & stone work in Floral Park Queens; not limited to chimneys.
  
  

bburd

There's a bit of that around southern New England too, mostly in homes built in the 1920s.

Mad Dog_2

Wow Mike.. These are Floral Park Village (Nassau) but Covert Ave.  Mad Dog 🐕 

tim smith

There is a house in our neighborhood that is all done in klinker. Always have admired it.

Mad Dog_2

I think it looks great...Olde Lexington....Mad Dog 🐕 

Dave Carpentier

Dunno if I appreciate the full length bricks at wildly off angles.
But the eclectic collection of brick chunks, the burned ones, rocks, etc... love it.

ChrisJ

If that's a style, it's not for me.

The Steam Whisperer

Yeah, I always loved those...but I tend to favor those styles. I always thought of it as what you'd get if you gave a stone mason bricks to work with. There's a number of homes around my neighborhood that have that have those clinker bricks

ChrisJ

The Steam Whisperer said:

Yeah, I always loved those...but I tend to favor those styles. I always thought of it as what you'd get if you gave a stone mason bricks to work with. There's a number of homes around my neighborhood that have that have those clinker bricks

My house, as well as most of the others in the area have field stone foundations.

I'm curious where all of those nice round stones came from........... Did you buy a load of field stone? How did this work in the 1800s? The closest large river to us is about 2 miles. That's a long way to haul all that stone.

It's called field stone.......but they're very round and I don't see them finding all of that on the land. Not my tiny lot.....

MikeL_2

   I grew up on a dairy farm in CT and every spring we towed a stone boat around the cornfields to gather / roll stones onto.
   It's amazing how many stones the earth would burp up over the winter; many of them about head size,  and round, oblong, & polished.

mattmia2

ChrisJ said:

I'm curious where all of those nice round stones came from........... Did you buy a load of field stone? How did this work in the 1800s? The closest large river to us is about 2 miles. That's a long way to haul all that stone.

It's called field stone.......but they're very round and I don't see them finding all of that on the land. Not my tiny lot.....

Most of the rubble foundations I have seen had concrete block or finished stone or brick above ground so I think in most cases the material was hauled in. They had to haul the dirt somewhere too.

The Steam Whisperer

MikeL_2 said:

   I grew up on a dairy farm in CT and every spring we towed a stone boat around the cornfields to gather / roll stones onto.
   It's amazing how many stones the earth would burp up over the winter; many of them about head size,  and round, oblong, & polished.

I remember this too during my years out in the farmlands of northern Illinois... lots of big round stones pulled from the fields.

ChrisJ

mattmia2 said:

I'm curious where all of those nice round stones came from........... Did you buy a load of field stone? How did this work in the 1800s? The closest large river to us is about 2 miles. That's a long way to haul all that stone. It's called field stone.......but they're very round and I don't see them finding all of that on the land. Not my tiny lot.....

Most of the rubble foundations I have seen had concrete block or finished stone or brick above ground so I think in most cases the material was hauled in. They had to haul the dirt somewhere too.

These, including mine are field stone all the way up.  Roughly 20" thick at the bottom and 16" near the top.

Then lightly parged.

Mad Dog_2

We constantly had to walk the 5/8th Mile training track on the Farm 🚜 picking large rounded rocks from egg 🥚 size to cantaloupe size, so these 1/2 Million dollat Thoroughbreds don't turn an ankle or bruise a frog 🐸.   Mad Dog 🐕 

JUGHNE

I am on the edge of the sandhills of NE.
The largest stone we might see is golf ball size and that is pumped up from a gravel/sand pit. You buy the gravel, the sand is free for the hauling.

Anything larger must be trucked here about 100 miles from SD.

We have a good collection as our son and wife would truck some back here when visiting.

I know of 3 early 1900's buildings that have flat "river stones" for foundation walls.
All others, if a good foundation, have poured concrete.

ChrisJ

JUGHNE said:

I am on the edge of the sandhills of NE. The largest stone we might see is golf ball size and that is pumped up from a gravel/sand pit. You buy the gravel, the sand is free for the hauling. Anything larger must be trucked here about 100 miles from SD. We have a good collection as our son and wife would truck some back here when visiting. I know of 3 early 1900's buildings that have flat "river stones" for foundation walls. All others, if a good foundation, have poured concrete.

Where my parents built there's a few foundations left from old houses that rotted away. They're all built from very flat grey shale stacked.  But that's what is very plentiful in that area.

When I dug my two sump pits I was blessed by finding two huge chunks of quartz in the way. I hammer drilled and busted what I could out of the way. Lots of fun...

Apparently there's a lot of quartz here.

reggi

JUGHNE said:

I am on the edge of the sandhills of NE. The largest stone we might see is golf ball size and that is pumped up from a gravel/sand pit. You buy the gravel, the sand is free for the hauling. Anything larger must be trucked here about 100 miles from SD. We have a good collection as our son and wife would truck some back here when visiting. I know of 3 early 1900's buildings that have flat "river stones" for foundation walls. All others, if a good foundation, have poured concrete.

The Sandhills sounds like a place that any Fieldstone that WAS around was probably made of sandstone and pressure and mother nature took care of the rest...
Though you should of gotten a good supply from Glacier activity... probably in the history books of those schools you've been maintaining 🍎