As I said previously - there ain't no such thing. From my 1915 apartment house at 88th and West End to the schlock 1960s buildings, all the "white brick" actually has little black specks in it, introduced (says Glen-Gary) "to deaden some of the white color."
Why, exactly, they want to deaden the white color Ray Matullo could not explain.
There is a single exception to the "all the" statement above: the 1950 Manhattan House. Uniform color. No specks.
But it looks the same to me, from a distance, as does the typical white glazed brick building directly across the street.
Reactions? Is there a white brick historian somewhere?
Christopher
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