The reasons St. Louis became a brick city are manifold: clay deposits in the earth, innovative brickmakers here in town, European immigrants who knew how to stack and scrape the blocks into elegance.

A crew of four to eight workers started the slow and tedious process of preserving Morrill Hall in July and their job won’t ...

That includes things like brick repair, parging, chimney repair and tuckpointing as well as other masonry restorations.