German Village is a brick enclave. Most of the humble bricks that make up the the houses and streets, however, are sadly and utterly anonymous — simple, ruddy red, generic rectangular blocks made of clay and straw, fired in a kiln, with nothing to tell you where they came from or how they got here.
Except on Willow Street. On Willow Street, between its intersections with Lazelle and Mohawk, the bricks in the roadway are loud and proud. Their places of manufacture are stamped onto their surfaces, telling of companies that once thrived when America was a land of brick, before it became a land of steel and concrete. Nelsonville Block. Zanesville Block. Athens Block. Peebles, and Metropolitan Block, of Canton, O. Trimble.
It’s as if the brickmakers and blockmakers knew that their products were going to Willow Street and decided to do something special. And it is special.
Webner House 