Running out of space on Reade Street in Manhattan, Gair crossed the East River in 1887 and built two six-story, red-brick factories at 25 and 30 Washington Street, between Water and Plymouth Streets.

Built near the beginning of the century, the red-brick factory produced a variety of products, from piano wire to welding wire to wires used in phonograph needles.

Its name was registered as a trademark in 1892, and it has been manufactured since 1897 in a handsome red-brick Victorian factory on Midland Road in Worcester, a mile from the city's fine medieval cathedral and 125 miles northwest of London.

The killing of Mr. Falleti, who was 78 years old, angered and stunned workers in the neighborhood of red-brick factories and warehouses, where he was well known and well liked.

My mind turned to Thomas Edison, who invented the light bulb a century ago in the red-brick factory five miles away from my house.

The blaze, which officials said was the work of arsonists, began about 3:45 A.M. Saturday in a vacant five-story red-brick factory at River and Passaic Streets and quickly spread to four adjacent buildings.

That house is a decidedly unglamorous red-brick factory here in industrial northwest England; the plant produced its last Rolls-Royce on Aug. 30.

Later he founded Mass MOCA, a picturesque sprawl of red-brick factories in North Adams, Mass., commonly billed as the largest museum of contemporary art in the world.

On parts of the assembly line inside the Gothic red-brick factory, car frames are pushed along not by machines, but by the workers.

In 1906, James Horlick, one of the eponymous founders of the malted milk company, opened a purpose-built red-brick factory near Slough Railway Station to manufacture his malted milk product.