The Brick: Part 2 - The wild goose chase

Karen really wants to see any potential brick on a house.  Or put another way find a house that we like the brick and try to determine the manufacturer and name of the brick.  Our interest in Old Virginia Brick took us on a road trip to Virginia on Saturday, March 26, 2011.

I learned from Roger at American Block in Princeton, WV that two homes - One in Rocky Gap, VA and one in Tazewell, VA had used the Old Virginia Woodlawn brick.  So off we went on Saturday morning to find these homes.  While they were relatively easy to find, we quickly decided Woodlawn was out.  On the way back from Tazewell we toured neighborhoods in Bluefield Virginia.  We found a few possibilities but nothing that knocked our socks off.

After a stop in at Sheetz to grab an on the road lunch, we returned to Beckley to pick up Camden and head in another direction to search out for brick.  We decided to go to Teays Valley, WV.  Probably the largest collection of tract home subdivisions in the state.  We had to coerce Camden with a process of a trip to the Disney Store for good behavior.

Once in Teays Valley we ended up touring probably 10 subdivisions.  We found several houses we liked and started getting cross eyed at some point.  The winner was declared on a home in the Woodridge subdivision.  Karen talked to the lady of the house, who didn't know the brick, but said her husband would.  Karen left our phone number let's hope that she calls.

On the way to the Huntington Mall, I joked with Karen that we should just cross the OH and KY borders to say we looked for brick in 4 states in one day.  Cam was great and ended up with a gigantic Megamind figure.

Here are some photos of our brick road trip.  Can anyone figure out which house is the one we liked best?