Paul Hohmann
Paul Hohmann is an Architect specializing in historic rehabilitation in St. Louis.
read moreNini Harris
NiNi Harris (sister of Shelia Harris) got her first St. Louis history lessons around the kitchen table as her grandmother made chocolate cakes from scratch. “On Sunday mornings she went to 6 a.m. Mass, and then she’d come back and start baking,” Harris said. “I associated history with chocolate because we’d lick the spatulas as she told stores about what life was like growing up in Soulard.” Harris, 57, has made it her mission and her living to preserve those stories. She’s written nine books that detail neighborhood and ethnic histories in the St....
read moreShelia Harris
Shelia is a retired teacher and currently a local St. Louis artist who works in water colors.
read moreMimi Garstang
Mimi Garstang was Division Director and Missouri State Geologist for the Missouri Department of Resources, Division of Geology and Land Survey from 1979 to 2008.
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Jeannette Hoss, Managing Producer
Jeannette Hoss is a communicator, researcher and marketing professional with a background in Account Management. A creative and inquisitive person, she enjoys researching any subject, talking to strangers and getting to know them. Jeannette has spent most of her life in or near St. Louis and has always been fascinated by its brick architecture; working on the documentary was a great opportunity to get to know the city on a more intimate level.
read moreAbout Brick By Chance and Fortune
St. Louis is a city with a rich heritage of brick architecture. Home to some of the largest and most innovative clay working companies of the nineteenth century, you can still see some of the finest examples of brick work ever produced all over the city and region. Today the city's brick heritage is under threat by neglect, brick theft and urban renewal.
