A new approach to building uses historic bricks

FALLBROOK – Mark Kirk is taking a new approach to building custom homes and it led him to transport a load of century-old bricks from Kansas to California while implementing his new plan.

The bricks that once paved the streets of Dodge City are now featured at the entrance to a lot that is all ready for a new home to be built there.

Kirk first stumbled on to the site of his latest project in Fallbrook in 2002 – a 24 acre piece of property on Monserate Hill Road and knew it was a "Crown Jewel."

Even though the property was overgrown with 1500 old avocado trees so dense he could not see through...