1905 Antique Clay Brick Powell & Minnock Brick Co. P&M Hudson River NY region

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1905 Antique Clay Brick Powell & Minnock Brick Co. P&M Hudson River NY region.
Found in demolition of building in a Massachusetts mill
owell & Minnock was the last brick manufacturer in New York State to close. Charles Cockrell was its last president. Their website (which just closed this year) stated P&M Brick was "the oldest brick manufacturer in New York State, which manufactures formed and extruded bricks used in building construction."
Many efforts were made to try and stay in business: In 2000 an award from NY State ERDA of more than ,000 was granted to Powell and Minnock. Annual energy bills for the facility exceed .6 million. NYSERDA's award helped to fund an efficiency study of the facility that recommended a number of ways the company could lower its energy costs, including lighting upgrades and retrofits, installing more efficient electric motors, and modifying the kilns used to manufacture the bricks, which would allow 63% more bricks to be processed through the kilns each day. These recommendations could save Powell and Minnock about 0,000 per year. The total cost to implement these recommendations will be a little more than million, which will be covered by the energy savings