Only a partial wall of this 300 foot kiln remains, but the brick factory endured more than a century of brick production under five separate owners, a fire that spread throughout the plant in 1927, the Depression era of the 1930s, and a temporary shutdown during World War II. It produced hundreds of thousands of bricks that were distributed throughout Michigan and parts of the Midwest. Structures built with these bricks still stand today, including examples in Grand Ledge, on the MSU campus, and in some of the Oldsmobile factory buildings.