Brickmaker's House, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY

Creator(s): Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc.

Year: 2002

Summary

Photographs of the 17th-c. brickmaker's house portion of the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility site.

Cite this Record

Brickmaker's House, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY. Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc.. 2002 ( tDAR id: 381453) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8N29WPT

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections


Keywords

Culture
Historic

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Dating Sample • Fauna • Glass • Macrobotanical • Metal • Pollen • Shell • Wood

Site Name
Quackenbush Square Parking Facility

Site Type
Brickyard • Commercial or Industrial Structures • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Historic Structure • House • Non-Domestic Structures • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Historic Background Research • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan

General
17TH CENTURY OCCUPATION • Brickmaking • Bricks • Colonial Settlement • Dutch • Trade

Geographic Keywords
Albany, New York

Temporal Keywords
17th Century

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1630 to 1686 (Brickyard and brickmaker's house)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -73.768; min lat: 42.633 ; max long: -73.737; max lat: 42.668 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc.

Record Identifiers

New York State Museum Accession Number(s): A2003.23

Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. Project Number(s): 1997

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Unique Site Number(s): 00

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Project Review Number(s): 00PR02006

Notes

General Note: Detailed photos of the brickmaker’s house at the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility site, Albany, NY. Qbush Brick Photo 1: The charred sleepers, or floor joists, laid on the ground and supported the floor of the original house. When the site was reoccupied after the house was burned, the sleepers were incorporated into the second house. Qbush Brick Photo 2: View of the intact portion of the brick platform leading from the east façade of the second brick maker’s house toward the river and brickyard. The charred sleepers are visible in the background. Qbush Brick Photo 3: Concentration of crushed brick, thought to be the remnants of the hearth from Occupation 1.

Source Collections

New York State Museum

File Information

  Name Size Creation Date Date Uploaded Access
qbush-brick-photo-1.jpg 310.60kb Feb 25, 2013 11:18:29 AM Public
qbush-brick-photo-2.jpg 311.09kb Feb 25, 2013 11:18:30 AM Public
qbush-brick-photo-3.jpg 509.68kb Feb 25, 2013 11:18:31 AM Public
qbush-brick-site-plan-view.tif 565.56kb Feb 25, 2013 12:20:10 PM Public