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The brick on the building is an old sandmold standard-size flashed burgundy brick and a plain buff mortar in a flush joint. If I were to match these, I would use Belden Brick's Belcrest 740 bricks. Those aren't available in standard size, but the modular size they're made in will work because it's the same height. (Matching size exactly doesn't really matter for columns or other projects where the brick isn't going to be laid directly into the existing brick wythes (in fact, the bricks on the columns are a bit longer and a bit less tall than the bricks on the house)). I'd match the mortar with Heidelberg's Old Colonial, the go-to for matching older structures, from their Flamingo colored mortar series. Heidelberg's premixed Old Colonial could also work.

The brick on the columns is just over 8 inches long and just under 2 1/4 inches tall, so it's a weird size. They may have been "seconds", meaning the factory screwed up and had to sell them at a discount. That would explain the mismatch -- mighta been a 1970s Landlord Special. Nonetheless, they're beautiful bricks. A rusty brown color with ironspot texture ("ironspot" is somewhat literal: the clay and/or shale is mixed with actual flecks of metal, usually manganese these days I think, that melts in the kiln and makes a sort of glaze of freckles on the surface of the brick!), laid with an almost-matching red mortar.

A few years ago, in a dark dream, I found a field bathing in light.

Title: floor(A^3^n) dollar foot long

SpongeBob: Sandwiched which have a prime price for all integer n?!?!

Patrick: Fascinating in nature, but contradictory since it can only be found by first computing the primes.

Title: Number of integers and Number of rails in between 0-1 dollar sandwiches

SpongeBob (w/ cursed face): Two difference sandwiches with infinitesimal prices, but one is still more expensive than the other.

Patrick (w/ cursed face): Tragedy, David Hilbert was betrayed by his own field of study

Title: NP-complete dollar foot long

SpongeBob (w/ cursed face): Sandwiches whose price may increase exponentially but can be verified in only polynomial time, and which might not even exist????