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Jenkins Brick Company, Plant No. 2, Furnace Street, Montgomery, Montgomery County, AL

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Jenkins Brick Company, Plant No. 2, Furnace Street, Montgomery, Montgomery County, AL

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Summary

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.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N953
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1348
Survey number: HAER AL-185
Building/structure dates: 1906 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1910 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1912 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1924 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1925 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1927 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1937 Subsequent Work

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Date

1969 - 1980
person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Minter System
Jenkins Brick Company
Architectural Stone Products
Alabama Historical Commission, sponsor
Gamble, Robert, sponsor
O'Connell, Kristen, transmitter
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
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Location

Montgomery (Ala.)32.40383, -86.31480
Google Map of 32.4038315, -86.3148044
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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