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Local materials were used in the construction of the church buildings as much as possible. A narrow gauge railroad, built specifically for this purpose, was used to transport sandstone from Rocky Hollow. Carrara marble was used in the altar, and alabaster was shipped from Italy and England were used in the interior.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Noble Theatre building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the American Trust Building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Brown-Marx building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Chamber of Commerce building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the First National Bank building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Jefferson County Bank building and the Banking Rooms.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Jemison Real Estate & Ins. Co.’s Office.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Lyric Theatre.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of Union Station in Birmingham, Alabama.
Photograph caption: “The University of Alabama, Birmingham, Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building was constructed using Vetter Stone’s Alabama Silver Shadow oolitic limestone. The architect was CUH2A, Princeton, N. J.”
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Woodward building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the United States Post Office in Dothan, Alabama.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the United States Post Office in Gadsden, Alabama.
Alabama marble was used for the exterior of the United States Post office building constructed in or before 1916 in Mobile, Alabama.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Bell building.
Alabama marble, Italian Cremo de la Cotta, and Fior Pesca were used in the floor design. The Alabama-shaped centerpiece was created of rare blue marble, which was used to circle the centerpiece. Marble from Alabama was used "within the ring and outside of the map of Alabama, which is in the center."
The building in which the State Archives and History Museum is located was built with Tennessee gray marble for the marble walls and staircases and Alabama white marble.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Union Station in Montgomery, Alabama.
In the “History of Somerset Courthouse” section of this web site, it is stated that courthouse was built with white Alabama marble.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the United States Post Office in Talladega, Alabama.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Thompson-Gregory building.
According to the tour, the Rotunda was “The interior (of the rotunda) is constructed of marble from three states. The marble on the floors and walls came from Vermont. The columns around the third floor are Colorado marble, and the grand staircases are Alabama marble.”
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Arkansas State Capital.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Pulaski County Court House.
Alabama marble was used for the exterior of the Connecticut Savings Bank building.
According to this news release, the stones used in the construction of the Aetna Building are as follows: a large quantity of Georgia marble, 30,000 cubic feet of Alabama limestone, and 3,420 cubic feet of pink marble from North Carolina.
Alabama marble was used for the exterior and interior of the Atlantic National Bank Building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Burbridge Hotel.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the City Engineering building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Florida Life Insurance building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Seminole Hotel.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the St. James building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Windle Hotel.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Sacred Heart Hospital.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the San Carlos Hotel.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of Union Station in Pensacola, Florida.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the United States Post Office in Americus, Georgia.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Forsyth Street Theatre building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Georgian Terrace.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Healy building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Hurt building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Banking Rooms of the Lowry National Bank.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Dempsey Hotel.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Jenkins County Court House.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Savannah Hotel.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Continental & Commercial Bank building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Federal Life building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Fields Store and Team Room and the Fountain.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the interior of the Insurance Exchange building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior the Kesner building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Lytton building.
Alabama marble was used for the exterior of the Ogden Armour Residence.
(The following article and photographs are from
Mine and Quarry Magazine, Sullivan Machinery Co., Publisher, Chicago, Illinois, Vol. V. No. 3 - February, 1911, pages 463 - 466.) The building was constructed of steel frames and girders and was finished about 1910. A colonnade of 18 solid polished granite columns were used on the front of the building. The granite was "supplied by the Webb Granite and Construction Company and the granite was quarried and turned by the Rockport Granite Company of Rockport, Massachusetts, from their 'Sea Green' quarry." The building is "finished or sheathed up to and including the third floor with pink granite from Milford, Massachusetts. Above that terra cotta tile was used to represent granite.
A large amount of marble was used in the interior of the building "in the corridor floors, wainscots and fixtures." For the wainscots on all floors except the first, Alabama white marble was used. This marble was quarried from the quarries of the Alabama Marble Company of Sylacauga, Alabama. Grecian marble was used on the main floor of the building except for the Alabama marble used at the entrance in the columns. "The floors of the corridors and toilet rooms throughout the building (were) Green Pentelikon stone." The architects of the building were Messrs. D. H. Burnham & Co.
Alabama marble was used for the Peoples Gas building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the University Club.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the interior of the Westminster building.
As of July, 2001, the Navoo temple was still under construction. The original temple was constructed with limestone which was quarried from a site west of the temple. The waters of the Keokuk Dam submerged most of the original quarry. Church officials chose limestone quarried from Russellville, Alabama, a subsidiary of Minnesota.s Vetter Stone Company, to use for the present temple as it was felt it was a close match to the limestone used in the original temple.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Hendricks County Court House.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the City Hall building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the City Hospital.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Benevolent Knights of America building.
Eugene Lacosst chose to have the tomb he created for himself and his mother to be a replica of a “cardinal’s tome in the church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy.” He chose to have the intricately carved tomb to be built of a solid block of cream-colored Alabama marble.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Whitney Central Bank building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Ward building.
Alabama marble was used for the exterior of the Maryland Institute building.
The basic structure of the temple was of concrete. White Alabama marble was used to clad the exterior.
Italian tavernelle marble and Alabama marble were used to face the lobbies and most of the corridor walls. Gray Tennessee marble was used to cover the floors; and Bedford, Indiana, limestone was used to cover the exterior of the building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the interior of the Kresge building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the interior of the Whitney building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Alworth building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the First National-Soo Line building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the United States Post Office in Greenville, Mississippi.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the United States Post Office in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
"The Alabama State Memorial is located on the south loop of Confederate Avenue at milepost 13.6 of the park tour road. The memorial cost $150,000 when it was sculpted in 1951 by Steffan Thomas of Stone Mountain, GA. The bronze sculpture represents seven heroic men from Alabama being inspired by a woman who represents the state itself. The casting rests upon a base of Weiblin grey granite from Elberton City Quarries, Inc., Elberton, GA.
"The granite comes from the same quarries that were used in the construction of the Memorial Arch at Vicksburg National Military Park and the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial was dedicated on July 19, 1951."
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the New Omaha Grain Exchange building.
The window at the westerly end of the main waiting room is filled with “sheets of variegated translucent Alabama Marble.”
Alabama marble was used for the exterior of the Somerset County Court House.
The present City Hall in Lower Manhattan was completed in 1811 and officially opened in 1812. It was constructed to replace the previous city hall which was constructed in 1700. According to this article, the present “...City Hall is a blending of two distinct periods of architecture. While the inside can best be described as American Georgian, the exterior is decidedly French Renaissance....The exterior of City Hall is clad with Alabama limestone above a Missouri granite base.”
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Continental Building at 80 Maiden Lane, New York, New York.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Harriman National Bank building. (Formerly the Night and Day.)
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Knickerbocker Trust Company building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Trust Company of America building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Western Union building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Commercial Bank Building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Durham County Court House.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the United States Post Office in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the First National Bank.
Alabama marble was used for the floors of the Oklahoma State Capitol.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the United States Post Office in Oklahoma City.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Tulsa Hotel.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Marine Bank.
White Alabama marble was used to cover the “columns, pilasters, cornices rostrum bases, wainscoting, panels framing walls, and gallery railings.”
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Common Council Chamber of the City Hall.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Select Council Chamber of the City Hall.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Lafayette building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Widener.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Harry Davis.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the William Penn Hotel.
The bank was established in 1912 and moved to the present site in 1915. The present building, constructed in 1963, replaced another building, which was constructed in 1928. Flame-finished gabbro of dark "granite" from Wisconsin, was used on the lower two stores. White Alabama marble was used for the interior pillars. The lobby staircase was constructed of "highly fractured dark green Vert Tinos marble from Greece. Light brown Italian travertine was used on the interior walls. Marble-chip terrazzo was used for the floors. (See the photograph section, 28. American National Bank.) (From Building Stones of Downtown Chattanooga, (Tennessee), by Robert Lake Wilson, 1979. The digital PDF version is available through the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Geology Program, Department of Physics, Geology and Astronomy.)
Light gray oolitic limestone from Russellville, Alabama, was used on the upper floors of the building. Gabbro or black "granite" from the Transvaal in South Africa was used on the lower three floors. Light gray Georgia marble was used for the lobby floor and steps. The building was completed in 1976. (See the photograph section, 34. Criminal Justice.) (From Building Stones of Downtown Chattanooga, (Tennessee), by Robert Lake Wilson, 1979. The digital PDF version is available through the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Geology Program, Department of Physics, Geology and Astronomy.)
Bedford Indiana Limestone was used as a base and for the arches. Blocks of pink sandstone from Sand Mountain, Alabama, was used for the façade of the building, which was constructed in 1929 as a part of the original first Baptist Church. (See the booklet for an explanation for the cavities seen in the sandstone.) (See the photograph section, 37. Department of Education.) (From Building Stones of Downtown Chattanooga, (Tennessee), by Robert Lake Wilson, 1979. The digital PDF version is available through the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Geology Program, Department of Physics, Geology and Astronomy.)
The church building was constructed in 1972. "Ever textured light gray oolitic lime stone" from the Rockwood quarry near Russellville, Alabama, was used for the entire exterior. The Kate West Chapel was built in 1951. Bedford Indiana Limestone was used in the construction. Alabama Limestone was used in the construction of the educational wing. (See the photograph section, 3. First Centenary United Methodist.) (From Building Stones of Downtown Chattanooga, (Tennessee), by Robert Lake Wilson, 1979. The digital PDF version is available through the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Geology Program, Department of Physics, Geology and Astronomy.)
The original building was constructed on the present site in 1905 by the Hamilton National Bank. In 1966 the present structure was completed. Opalescent Minnesota "granite" ("really a quartz monzonite) was used in the construction. Tennessee "Crab Orchard" sandstone was used for the lobby floor. White Alabama marble panels were used near the elevators on the upper floors. (See the photograph section, 30. First Tennessee Bank.) (From Building Stones of Downtown Chattanooga, (Tennessee), by Robert Lake Wilson, 1979. The digital PDF version is available through the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Geology Program, Department of Physics, Geology and Astronomy.)
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Doctors’ office building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Giles County Court House.
White Alabama marble was used for the communion rail of hand-wrought iron and marble that separates the nave from the sanctuary. Other stones used in the Cathedral include the two statues of Italian Carrara marble, the walls of gray Carthage veinless marble, and a “four-foot-high wainscot of cream-colored Tavernelle Clair marble, capped and based with verde antique marble from Maryland.” Terrazzo of a cream-color was used with a border of Spanish tile on the floor.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Commonwealth Banking room.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Cotton Exchange.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Criminal Court building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Scottish Rite Cathedral.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Carter building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Kress building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the First National Bank building.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the First National Bank building.
Alabama marble was used for the exterior of the First National Bank building.
White Colorado marble was used in construction of the exterior, and Indiana limestone was used for the interior walls. Pink Tennessee marble was used on the floor, and Alabama marble for the ceiling. The Wildernet.com web site states that “...panels of Alabama marble soaked in paraffin to make them translucent.”
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the interior of the Army and Navy Club.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Cosmos Club.
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the interior of the Metropolitan Bank building.
The exterior of the building was built using light-pink marble from Tennessee. The floors were verde antique marble from Vermont. The columns in the rotunda were built using brecciated marble from Carrara, Italy. The restrooms were built with marble from Missouri. The fountains at each end were built with travertine marble from Jasper County, Missouri. The walls of the galleries were built with fossil-bearing limestone from Colbert County, Alabama.
Alabama marble was used for the interior the Southern Building.
The exterior of the Supreme Court Building was constructed of Vermont marble. Crystalline flaked, white Georgia marble was used in the four inner courtyards. A creamy-colored Alabama marble was used above the basement level, the walls and floors of all of the corridors and entrance halls, either partially or wholly.
The original floor was made up of “Minton encaustic tiles from England.” After they became too badly worn, they were replaced in the early 1920s with the present floor tiles of “white marble from Alabama and black marble from New York.”
The outside of the temple is covered with Alabama marble.
The National Park Service web site presents the memorial stones placed in the interior of the Washington Monument. The Alabama Memorial Stone entry reads as follows and can be viewed on the National Park Service’s web site.
"Donor: The State of Alabama.
"Location: 40-Foot Level, West Wall, 2nd Landing
"Dimensions: 4 feet by 2 feet
"Inscriptions: " Alabama. A Union of Equality, As Adjusted by the Constitution."
"Material: Native marble
"Sculptor: Information not available
"Carver: J.M.N.B. Nix & Co. of Wetumpka, Alabama
"Date: 1850
"More Information: A Joint resolution of December 4, 1849, authorized the Governor to contract for and order a solid and beautiful specimen of marble. Governor Henry Watkins Collier was notified on April 20, 1850, that the block was available for inspection at the State Penitentiary at Watumpka, on April 29th.
"A state warrant was issued from the contingent fund of the Governor for $155.30. It was thought that the best means of transportation for the stone was by rivers, as the passageway was navigable from Wetumpka to Mobile. On May 28, 1850, the block of marble was forwarded from Alabama. It was noted in the Washington National Monument Society Records that the block of stone was received during the week of August 6, 1850.
"Related Categories: States, Marble, The State of Alabama and 40-Foot Level.
"Sources: Park Files"
Alabama marble was used for the interior of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance building.
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