| McAvoy Today
Today's McAvoy draws on a rich heritage of skill and craft to provide the finest
brick made in America. Call on us whatever your construction needs - to create
distinctive residential, commercial or institutional buildings, or to meet the
special requirements of paving brick and shapes. As always in our proud past,
brick from McAvoy is the beautiful, versatile and lasting choice.
Images of Our Past
For more than a hundred years, McAvoy has created the brick that built and paved
America. It began in the Philadelphia area and it continues there today, with
a level of craftsmanship that is the legacy of each generation to the next.
<click on the thumbnail images below for a larger view>
 Kilns
at one of the first McAvoy brickyards in Philadelphia
 Horse-drawn
extraction operations in Phoenixville
 Old
Glory flies above the Phoenixville plant, circa 1900
 Manufacturing
handmade molded brick in Philadelphia, mid-1880's. The boys are two future
company executives: John Creighton McAvoy (standing) and Thomas Bell McAvoy
Jr.
 Gas
shovel at work, circa 1930
 Brickyard
gang in Phoenixville, about 1910
 Mining
crew at a shale face in the 1880s
 Early
views of shale planer in Phoenixville
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