Thanks for the earlier article. It made a nice bookend with this later one.
I never studied concrete, but there were some wonderful letters back and forth between Henry Livingston and his grandson, IL Chief Justice Sidney Breese, on a
method of building bricks locally.
Henry also wrote about
visiting his cousin John Jay's home as it was being built and commented on the importance of not building in wood because of fire hazard. Jay and his wife stayed with Henry for a week just after Henry's young son died of burns. While Jay was ambassador to Spain, he looked into letting his own son stay with Henry and his wife instead of with Jay's father.
I do a lot more with NY history than with archeology.
