Roman brick

The facade features pressed Roman brick and brownstone and is adorned with a Palladian window and cast-iron balconettes.

It’s a grand Roman brick structure from the 1920s, decorated with terra-cotta tiles and Egyptian-themed pilasters.

The Cheney house, built in 1903, was a broad-shouldered example of Wright’s Prairie style, its hipped roof extending protectively over a base of Roman brick.

Many Roman brick buildings are long gone - but not because the bricks themselves have decayed.

They were not confident of finding anything at all, but , human remains spanning centuries, broken, carved stone from many earlier periods of the building, Roman brick and finds such the little coin have poured out of the small, square pit.