Patterned Brick Houses

Patterned Brick Houses (HMEC2)

Location: Lower Alloways Creek, NJ 08038 Salem County
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N 39° 30.47', W 75° 27.616'

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Hancock House Historic Site

The exterior of the Hancock House is an outstanding example of the patterned brick houses that once dotted the landscape of Salem County, NJ. Modeled after the seventeenth-century building traditions of the Quakers' English homeland, masons used variations in the color and placement of bricks to create designs, dates and initials in the walls of the house.

In the Hancock House, built in 1734, the masons alternated red bricks laid lengthwise, called stretchers, with blue glazed bricks laid on end, referred to as headers. The result was a checker-board design called Flemish Bond. They used a similar technique to create a unique herringbone pattern in the end walls.

Bricks were made from local clays. They were molded, air dried, then fired in a wood-burning kiln. Those bricks that were closest to the fire acquired a "vitrified" or blue-glazed surface. The irregular features, cracks, and bubbles within the glaze did not compromise the product since the glaze waterproofed the brick.

Salem County has the second largest concentration and variety of patterned brick houses, after Burlington County, in New Jersey and the nation. Often homes to the elite, brick houses comprised one tenth of the late eighteenth-century homes in the county.
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HM NumberHMEC2
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Placed ByState of New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry
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Date Added Saturday, October 25th, 2014 at 11:33pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 460431 N 4373234
Decimal Degrees39.50783333, -75.46026667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 39° 30.47', W 75° 27.616'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds39° 30' 28.20" N, 75° 27' 36.96" W
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Area Code(s)856
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 485 Locust Island Rd, Lower Alloways Creek NJ 08038, US
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