Most wall cracks can be remedied by re-taping drywall joints. Sometimes, though, cracks in walls signify a larger problem.

The product of five years of research, Thompson’s Patterned Brick Architecture of West New Jersey was published in 2023 by the South Jersey Culture & History Center at Stockton University.

The report released Monday attributed the April 2023 collapse to multiple factors, including what it called the “dangerous demolition of a structural brick pier inside the building performed ...

Thompson heard fellow historians rave about the jazzy exterior wall designs of South Jersey’s 18th-century patterned brick farmhouses. These geometric arrangements of structural bricks in ...