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18. William Minnock House
2 New Street
ca.1929
A three-by-two bay brick, Georgian Revival style home with breezeway
and attached garage. The building features symmetrical and regular
fenestration with the original six-over-one light sash intact and a
central three-part Colonial Revival style surmounted by an arched
top light. The entry is sheltered by an original single-story porch
now supported on iron posts. The building is covered by a slate
shingle clad gable roof pierced by gable dormers with round-arched
windows.
Automobile garage
A brick garage contemporary with the house is located north of the
house.
In-ground pool
A ca.1965 button-mushroom shaped in-ground pool is also located on
the property.
William F. Minnock Sr. was one of the important industrial figures
connected to the Hudson River brick industry in Coeymans during the
late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was associated with the
powerful Powell & Minnock Brick Works, a company that became one of
the last major Hudson River brick manufacturers and operated along
the riverfront north of the hamlet of Coeymans.
Historical references identify him as chairman of Powell & Minnock
Brick Works by the early 1960s, and records also note that his son,
William F. Minnock Jr., later operated the family business after
World War II. The Minnock family became deeply tied to the
industrial identity of Coeymans, where vast brick yards, drying
sheds, kilns, barges, and river docks once lined the Hudson River
shoreline. The company supplied millions of bricks used in New York
City and throughout the Northeast during the height of the Hudson
River brick era.
The Powell & Minnock yards survived longer than most Hudson River
brickyards, eventually becoming the last major brick manufacturer
operating in New York State before the company closed in 2001. The
former brickyard property later evolved into what is now the Port of
Coeymans marine terminal.
