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The house is on the City's historic buildings inventory, but not much else is known other than the original owner and the date of construction. It's been renovated and expanded.
This is a mechanical interlocking plant that implements the "logic" of a complex set of railroad turnouts (aka switches). Only certain combinations of turnout settings are permitted, others would lead to derailments or collisions. The big handles control the turnouts, the blocks below are the logic. These plants were replaced by electromechanical plants, and today by complex remote operations centers. The control center for this area is in the new Caltrain building off Coleman.
The smelter/kiln is the pipe on the right. Cinnabar ore (HgS) from the mines is heated creating Hg vapor and S02. The Hg vapor is condensed in the zigzag pipes to the left, and the SO2 is vented to the atmosphere! This operated until 1976! Cough, hack... Site of a tour visit for SIA 2008
Supplied cans to Barron-Gray and the other canneries nearby. Empty cans are hard to ship very far (fragile, bulky), so there were similar co-locations all over San Jose. The practice of co-locating can companies with packers etc. persists to this day.
Hmm, why are the condos north on 3rd called the Brickworks? A bit of research on the Sanborn maps and off the net showed that this was the site of the Peterson-Kartschoke Brickworks. This little building is all that's left, and was meant to show the various types of bricks they made and was the plant offices. Clay came from along Coyote Creek to the east, where you can still see obvious quarrying remnants. This was going to be a tour stop for SIA 2008 but not enough people signed up. Still may be part of a future Chapter event. The brickworks closed in the 1930s and the site was bought by the Gladding brothers, who'd just sold Gladding-McBean in Lincoln. They manufactured clay products here.
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Nice find...
Now the center of San Jose, this was the edge of the city around 1900, and there were still farms near by through the 1950s.
There are quite a few of these under 1000 sq ft bungalows in central San Jose.
The house is on the City's historic buildings inventory, but not much else is known other than the original owner and the date of construction. It's been renovated and expanded.
Note that they misspelled Hoffmann...
Part of a former Remillard brickworks, there is a Hoffmann Kiln at this site that was at one time a restaurant.
This is a mechanical interlocking plant that implements the "logic" of a complex set of railroad turnouts (aka switches). Only certain combinations of turnout settings are permitted, others would lead to derailments or collisions. The big handles control the turnouts, the blocks below are the logic. These plants were replaced by electromechanical plants, and today by complex remote operations centers. The control center for this area is in the new Caltrain building off Coleman.
The smelter/kiln is the pipe on the right. Cinnabar ore (HgS) from the mines is heated creating Hg vapor and S02. The Hg vapor is condensed in the zigzag pipes to the left, and the SO2 is vented to the atmosphere! This operated until 1976! Cough, hack... Site of a tour visit for SIA 2008
Supplied cans to Barron-Gray and the other canneries nearby. Empty cans are hard to ship very far (fragile, bulky), so there were similar co-locations all over San Jose. The practice of co-locating can companies with packers etc. persists to this day.
Hmm, why are the condos north on 3rd called the Brickworks? A bit of research on the Sanborn maps and off the net showed that this was the site of the Peterson-Kartschoke Brickworks. This little building is all that's left, and was meant to show the various types of bricks they made and was the plant offices. Clay came from along Coyote Creek to the east, where you can still see obvious quarrying remnants. This was going to be a tour stop for SIA 2008 but not enough people signed up. Still may be part of a future Chapter event. The brickworks closed in the 1930s and the site was bought by the Gladding brothers, who'd just sold Gladding-McBean in Lincoln. They manufactured clay products here.