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Cman710
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Posted on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 11:08 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hi everyone,
I was wondering whether the orange/redish brick used in many of Detroit's historic mansions is a particular kind of brick, or just a standard kind of brick. I do not know much about building and construction.

Examples of the color brick I am referring to would be the Ransom Gillis House, many of the other Brush Park mansions, and the old house on Trumbull Street that collapsed recently, and which has been the subject of another thread.
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56packman
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Posted on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 11:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

it's called common brick--for a reason
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Rustic
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Posted on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 11:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/62684/71657.html

scroll down and you will learn more about Detroit bricks than you thought possible.
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Cman710
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Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 10:29 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks!
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Cambrian
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Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 12:21 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hey packman, I could not find the old Hudson's shopping bags. I do still have the holiday pins. You interested?
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56packman
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Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 12:24 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

yea, I'd like to see them--shoot me an email at
56 packman (at) twmi (dot)rr(dot)com

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