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We are in the process of tearing down an old building in Wisconsin and most of the bricks have nothing on them but found some with M B C my grandson took some and I am trying to give him some history with them. We know the building was built in the early 1800.
We are in the process of tearing down an old building in Wisconsin and most of the bricks have nothing on them but found some with M B C my grandson took some and I am trying to give him some history with them. We know the building was built in the early 1800.
hey i see you posted this around 2011, so hopefully you get to see this don. if your question hasnt been answered yet i think i may have some insight. MBC could stand for Malden Brick Company. this company was located in the 1800s to early 1900s in Malden, NY along the Hudson River. This area in New York was once the home to many brick manufacturers in the 19th century. although Wisconsin is a good ways away from the Huson Valley, so there may have been another company with the same tag on their bricks even closer.
ReplyDeleteWell 2011 to 2015 to 2025! Those bricks were likely made in Menomonie, Wisconsin by the Menomonie Brick Company (MBC) but I'm afraid that if they were made here in Menomonie, that building could not have been built in the early 1800's. The brick making at Menomonie did not begin until the 1870's, The MBC bricks had the letters spaced evenly within the frog and were usually large enough to take up the space within the frog. These are quite distinctive and easily identifiable. There were seven brickyards operating in Menomonie around 1900 and MBC was the last of the bunch closing down in the 1960's. I have not come across any other bricks manufactured with the MBC logo. I am a local historian and have done a great deal of research on the Menomonie area brickyards. If you have any questions, I would be more than happy to answer them for you.
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