Alliance Clay Product Company | |
 Abandoned buildings in the complex | |
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| Nearest city | Alliance, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 40°54′13″N81°4′57″W / 40.90361°N 81.08250°W |
| Area | 713 acres (2.89 km2) |
| NRHP reference No. | 78002130 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | 1978-12-08 [1] |
The Alliance Clay Product Company District is a historic district in Alliance, Ohio, United States. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, it includes twelve contributing properties. [1]
The Alliance Clay Product Company was chartered in 1905, as a company for "the purpose of the manufacturing, selling and dealing in brick, paving blocks, building blocks, sewer pipe, drain tile and all kinds of clay product". [2] The buildings themselves were built beginning in 1906, the year the company was founded by James B. Wilcox. [3] [4] By 1907, the single plant was producing 18,000 bricks a day. [5] Plant No. 2 was built in 1914, followed by Plant No.3 in 1924, for a total production capacity of 275,000 bricks a day. [4] Company houses were also built on property, beginning in the 1920s. [4] Gas burners were installed in kilns on site beginning in 1929, following the discovery of a daily supply of 1,500,000 cubic feet of gas on the property. [6]
Production began to decline in the 1960s, due to a rise in other road surfacing materials increasingly replacing paving bricks. [5] Production finally ceased in 1970. [4]
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