Creator: Claudia Chemello & Paul Mardikian
Date: 2015
Introduction: The Western Clay Manufacturing Company site in Helena, Montana is a large brick and tile manufacturing site founded in the 1880’s. Under the leadership of its owners, Charles Bray and his son, Archie Bray, Sr., Western Clay became Montana’s premiere brick and hollow clay tile manufacturing plant by the early 20th Century. The site closed in 1961 and is now home to the internationally recognized Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts (ABF). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the site is a rare historical and industrial landscape, retaining many of its original structures including five beehive (downdraft )kilns measuring 35 feet (10.6 meters) in diameter and 20 feet (6 meters) in height,and associated kiln sheds, tools, molds and large-scale machinery.
Reference: Claudia Chemello & Paul Mardikian, ‘Conservation of Structural Ironwork from a Large Downdraft Kiln at the Former Western Clay Manufacturing Company site in Helena, Montana, USA’, Big Stuff 2015
DOI Link:
| Chemello, Claudia, & Mardikian, Paul. (2015). Conservation of Structural Ironwork from a Large Downdraft Kiln at the Former Western Clay Manufacturing Company site in Helena, Montana, USA. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4087284 |
