Chandler Brick Yard

Chandler Brick Yard, 1913, 1994.17.10

One of the first businesses to open in Chandler in 1912 was the Chandler Brick Yard.

It opened just in time to provide bricks for the building boom that started later than year in the new town. Many of the buildings in today’s downtown Chandler were built from the Chandler Brick Yard.

Owned by J. H. McGowan, the Chandler Brick Yard was two miles south of town, between today’s Germann and Queen Creek roads, near Arizona Avenue. By 1913, the Chandler Brick Yard was churning out more than 18,000 bricks per day.

The brickyard did not have any buildings only massive piles of bricks everywhere. Workers made the bricks by hand with the help of horses.

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