[Doug]

Pictured below is a brick courthouse building built around 1870 to replace a log courthouse building burned in the Civil War in Logan County, WV. This was in a very remote area at that time and there were perhaps less than a dozen houses in that town at that time, none of brick.

It took about 2 years to build the courthouse and the bricks were made on site by the builder that was a local entity. Note that the picture shows a man walking at the right-side corner of the building. Assuming that he is about 5 ½ feet tall, it appears the two-story building is about 40ftx40ft square and about 30 feet tall. This leads me to speculate about some of the construction details such as:
How thick would the lower floor walls have been? Single brick width? Double brick width?
Would the upper floor walls be the same thickness as the lower floor walls?

I don’t know the dimensions of the building. It appears the building is symmetric with windows and doors the same on opposite sides. It appears the window lintels have 17 or so bricks vertical indicating the windows are about 4 ft wide and about 8 ft or so tall.

There are 8 chimneys that extend several feet past the top of the walls.
Using my assumed dimensions, about how many bricks (within 10,000 or so) would have been used in this building?