Niles Firebrick Company
John R. Thomas, 1834-1898.
Niles Firebrick
Location of original Niles Fire Brick Company in 1882.
Aerial view of No. 2 plant in 1947
No. 1 Buildings in disrepair.
No. 1 kiln in disrepair.
All that remains of this building are the beams and foundation bricks.
Inside a kiln at No. 1 plant shows the thousands of bricks that went into its construction.
Weed-covered and rusted railroad tracks still point their rails at the frame buildings of “old No. 1.”
This smokestack rising from a kiln at the Niles Firebrick Company also helped thousands of smokestacks to
The old gives way to the new as a giant steam shovel batters an old kiln to bits and picks up the pieces.
Broken windows of Plant No. 1
Example of 'company houses' built by the Niles Firebrick Company for its workers and familythat were located near the factory.
Louis Patrone watches demolition of firebrick plant No. 1
Michael Patrone of 235 Langley Street wrote a letter to the board asking that it consider establishing a historical marker at his house, which was the home of John R. Thomas, founder of the Niles Firebrick Company.
Old No. 1 plant of the Niles Firebrick company looked like this in 1880, just eight years after it was founded by J.R. Thomas.
A photograph of the Falcon Iron & Nail factory employees.
Mahoning River with Niles Firebrick
These were the men who helped build the Niles Firebrick Company, Niles oldest industry.
Old #2 Plant, 1905
A picture of a Niles Firebrick, manufactured by the Niles Firebrick Company.
Sample book of Niles Firebrick Company.
1924 photograph of Niles Firebrick samples.
Sample page of Niles Firebrick Company.
Aerial view of the Niles Firebrick kilns.
Aerial view of the Niles Firebrick kilns.
Aerial view of the Niles Firebrick kilns.
PRR yard with Niles Firebrick in background.
1960 view of Niles Firebrick Company.
1960 view of Niles Firebrick Company.
A photo of the yard at the Niles
Niles Firebrick pattern shop on Langley
One of a series of pictures taken by Mike Patrone during the dismantling of the Niles Firebrick and its surroundings. August, 1961.
Taken on March 1, 1921, this photo shows the Hot Dry floor of the of the No. 1 plant of the Niles Firebrick Company.
