id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-007555 What Notre Dame is made of | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 1391 53 66 Over the next 30 years or so, the brothers and their teams of hired workmen who lived in shanties along the shore of St. Mary’s Lake produced millions of units of a distinctive yellow-buff construction material known as “Notre Dame brick,” excavating the marl from the lakes and the creek that drained them into the St. Joseph River by hand, pick and shovel. South Benders bought Notre Dame brick to build their homes, schools, sidewalks, factories and breweries. cache/news-007555.html txt/news-007555.txt