Guignard Brick Works Kilns ca. 1900 - Cayce, SC by Mosley Hardy

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The Guignard Brick Works is significant as an example of an early-twentieth century industrial complex, one which produced bricks for many buildings constructed in Columbia and throughout South Carolina from ca. 1900 through the mid-twentieth century, and for its association with the Guignard family, prominent in local business and civic affairs throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Three of the four kilns were built ca. 1900, while the fourth was built in 1932 to replace a ca. 1900 kiln which burned beyond repair. These beehive kilns, also called circular downdraft kilns, are constructed of brick, topped with brick domes, and measure approximately 18’ high and 35’ in diameter. The Guignard Brick Works flourished and expanded its operations with the building boom in Columbia which began in the late 1890s and was in full swing by 1900.

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