Saw an old church in Detroit with bricks laid in a herringbone pattern from 1928

I was visiting family last fall and noticed the bricks on this old church were still perfectly tight, no cracks or shifting. Has anyone else seen really old brickwork that holds up better than anything we do today?

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elizabethtaylor3d agoMost Upvoted

That church on Michigan Avenue near downtown with the herringbone pattern has been standing since 1928 and I swear the mortar looks like it was put in last week. My grandma's house in Hamtramck was built in 1910 and the brickwork on her porch steps is still solid as a rock, no chips or loose bricks anywhere. They really knew what they were doing back then, like they had the patience to lay each brick perfectly instead of rushing through it like we do now lol.

hayden_butler272d ago

Patience" had nothing to do with it, they just used better materials.

terryh202d ago

@elizabethtaylor your grandma's porch sounds indestructible, my last DIY project ended up looking like a toddler stacked the bricks. Guess that's what I get for using modern quick-dry mortar lol.