Apr 17, 2016 Apr 17, 2016 Updated Apr 17, 2016 The “last of the Mohicans” is the nickname Eric Swartz has for a pile of misshapen, bloated bricks heaped at the Colonial Brick Corp. in Cayuga.

Boltshauser used time-patinated 100-year-old clinker bricks. These were reclaimed from a demolished church in Cologne, Germany, 250 miles away, a distance “that’s about the limit for sustainability,” ...