As this 1939 newspaper article describes, Moscow was once a booming center of the brick-making industry. One manufacturer was Taylor & Lauder, whose bricks were considered one of the finest available in the northwest. Moscow fire brick was essential, also, to the construction of a young Moscow, Idaho.

Some buildings built in that era include Gritman Hospital, the Kenworthy Theater, Moscow fire hall, Moscow Medical, and the Catholic Church.

All images from the Ott Historical Photograph Collection