Quarries in Missouri & Quarry Links, Photographs, and Articles
St. Louis – Sullivan thru Union

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Sullivan Machinery Company Branch Office in St. Louis (Advertisement) (from Granite, Marble & Bronze Magazine, September 1906, Vol. XVI, No. 9, pp. 20)

  A corner of the Sandstone quarries of the Ohio Quarries Co., Amherst, Ohio. All the stone is channeled by 16 Sullivan class “Y” direct acting Channelers. An account of this great Sandstone property is given in the August Mine and Quarry.

  Stone Channelers

  Rock Drills - Plug Drills - Air Compressors

  Sullivan Machinery Co., Railway Exchange, Chicago, U.S.A.

  Claremont, N.H. - New York - Pittsburg - Knoxville - St. Louis - Joplin, Mo.

  Railway Exchange - Denver - Salt Lake - El Paso - Butte - San Francisco - Paris, France

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Sullivan Machinery Company (Advertisement) (from Granite, Marble & Bronze Magazine, January 1907, Vol. XVII, No. 1, pp. 20)

  Stone Channelers

  Rock Drills - Plug Drills - Air Compressors

  Sullivan Machinery Co., Railway Exchange, Chicago, U.S.A.

  Claremont, N.H. - New York - Pittsburg - Knoxville - St. Louis - Joplin, Mo. - Denver - Salt Lake - El Paso - Butte - San Francisco - Paris, France

• St. Louis, Missouri - Sullivan Machinery Co. - “The Beginnings of a Great New Hampshire Industry,” by George B. Upham, The Granite Monthly: New Hampshire State Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 4, April 1921, pp. 141-149.

  “The Sullivan Machinery Company now has offices in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, Knoxville, St. Louis, Cleveland, Duluth, Dallas, Joplin, Denver, Spokane, El Paso, Salt Lake, Toronto, Vancouver, Mexico City, Santiago in Chile, and Lima in Peru.  In the old world it maintains headquarters at London and Paris and before the war had a flourishing branch in Petrograd.  A branch has been maintained for many years in Sydney, Australia, and the company's representatives are selling Sullivan mining machinery in Japan, India, the Federated Malay States, and South Africa.
  
  ”Sullivan machinery for excavating rock in mines, tunnels and quarries, for compressing air, for prospecting for minerals, and for mining coal is found in every part of the world where these industries are carried on.  This article tells of the small, yet interesting beginnings of this New Hampshire Industry.”

  (The names used for this company include: “D. A. Clay & Co.,” “Claremont Machine Works,” “J. P. Upham & Co.,” and lastly, the “Sullivan Machinery Company.”)

• St. Louis, Missouri - Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company Branch Office in Missouri (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, December 1925, Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 65)

  

  Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City

  Chicago - San Francisco - Sylacauga, Ala. - Knoxville, Tenn. - Carthage, Mo. - St. Louis, Mo.

  “Marble Headquarters of the World”What It Means To You

  1. We carry the largest stock of marble in the world.
  2. We carry more different kinds of marble - over 200 that are constantly used.
  3. We have men all over the world wherever marble is know to exist combing the markets for new marbles.
  4. Our own new sawing plant at tidewater New York City insures quick delivery to marble contractors everywhere.

  Our sales representative are everywhere. Each is an expert in marble. Call on us at any time without thought of obligation.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company Missouri Branch Office (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, January 1926, Vol. 3, No. 9, pp. 65)

    The rich gray tones of Napoleon Gray exactly express the thought of Mr. G. A. Applegarth, the architect of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Jos. Musto Sons-Keenan Co. marble manufacturers.

    Napoleon Gray Marble

    Wherever Marble Can Be Used You can Use Napoleon Gray

    In great palaces, in banks, in office buildings, for walls, for floors, both inside or out, for every purpose both beautiful and practical, we offer Napoleon Gray Marble. This is truly an all-purpose marble. It carves, it is non-slip, it is economical. It is one of over 200 marbles that we carry in stock for your choice.

    Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City

    Chicago - San Francisco - Sylacauga, Ala. - Knoxville, Tenn. - Carthage, Mo. - St. Louis Mo.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company Branch Office in St. Louis (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, October 1927, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 49.)

    Detail, Seamen’s Bank Entrance. Carved Napoleon Gray Entrance, Seamen’s Bank for Savings, Wall St., New York City. Architect, B. W. Morris, Marble Contractor, Wm. Bradley & Son.

    Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City

    Chicago - San Francisco - Sylacauga, Ala. - Knoxville, Tenn. - St. Louis, MO.

    Napoleon Gray Marble. Harmonizing with the granite of the structure, the durability and ease of carving of Napoleon Gray Marble are but two of the features that made it the choice for the enrichment of this beautiful bank. There is no substitute for marble.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company Branch Office (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, September 1928, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 52)

    Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company, Distributors Marble Stone, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City

    Chicago - San Francisco - Sylacauga, Alabama - Knoxville, Tennessee - St. Louis, Missouri

• St. Louis City, Missouri - Michael Theby’s Limestone Quarry located at South Broadway (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

  Location and product.

  “Theby, Michael (48): - Mr. Theby has a quarry which is situated on the west of South Broadway, near the river Des Peres, in the St. Louis Limestone. The product consists mostly of ‘furnace rock,’ which is sold to iron furnaces for fluxing purposes; but a small amount is used as macadam, building stone, and dimension stone. The quarry is in a bluff, and has about one hundred yards of workable face. No machinery is used.

  “The following section in descending series was obtained here: -

  Section.

  1. Loess and residuary clay - 16 feet.
  2. Limestone, much decomposed - 4 feet.
  3. Limestone, drab, coarsely crystalline in two layers of equal thickness - 4 feet, 8 inches.
  4. Limestone, grayish, coarsely crystalline in three layers - 1 foot, 10 inches.
  5. Limestone, gray, drab, compact, brittle, splintery fracture suture joints, fossiliferous, in two layers - 3 feet, 3 inches.
  6. Limestone, buff to bluish, in beds two to six inches thick - 3 feet.
  7. Limestone, lavender, lithographic - 1 foot.
  8. Limestone, lavender, grading to buff towards the bottom, harder and finer grained towards the top - 2 feet, 1 inch.
  9. Limestone, buff, rather fine grained, calcite veins, in layers varying from three to eighteen inches in thickness - 5 feet.
  10. Limestone, mottled buff and bluish, blotches of calcite, very fossiliferous - 3 inches.
  11. Limestone, mottled buff and bluish, blotches of calcite, suture joints - 2 feet, 8 inches.
  12. Limestone, lavender, compact, siliceous - 1 foot, 6 inches.

  Total thickness of rock - 29 feet, 3 inches.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Union Marble and Tile Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, May 1923, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 43; September 1923, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 43; October 1923, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 43; November 1923, Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 43; January 1924, Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 43; February 1924, Vol. 1, No. 10, pp. 43; April 1924, Vol. 1, No. 12, pp. 43; May 1924, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 43; June 1924, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 43 ; July 1924, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 43; August 1924, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 43; September 1924, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 43; and January 1932, Vol. 9, No. 9, pp. 67.)

  The Union Marble and Tile Company, St. Louis, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” W. C. Fox is listed as the company representative.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Union Marble and Tile Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, June 1923, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 49. The same advertisement was published in the following issues of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: May 1923, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 49; August 1923, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 49; and September 1923, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 49.)

    View of Banking Floor, First National Bank, St. Louis, Mo. Mauran, Russell & Crowell, Architects. Westlake Construction Co., Gen. Cont’rs. This particularly attractive bank interior was made possible by the use of nine different marble varieties. It constitutes a beautiful color combination and a tone effect both contrasty, yet harmonious. All of the material for this work was fabricated by Union Marble & Tile Co., Inc.

    Union Marble & Tile Co., Inc., 1109-27 S. 7th St., St. Louis, MO.

    (pp. 42) The Union Marble and Tile Company, St. Louis, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” W. C. Fox is listed as the company representative.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Union Marble and Tile Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, August 1923, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 42.)

    The Union Marble and Tile Company, St. Louis, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” W. C. Fox is listed as the company representative.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Union Marble and Tile Company (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, July 1925, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 58)

    Alabama and Westfield Green Marble was used in this Main Entrance to the St. Louis University High School, St. Louis. Marble was used extensively throughout this building and was furnished by the Union Marble & Tile Co. Barnett, Haynes & Barnett, Architects.

    Union Marble & Tile Company, 1109-27 South Seventh Blvd., St. Louis, MO.

    William C. Fox, Gen. Mgr.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Union Marble and Tile Company (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, October 1923, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 49. This advertisement was also published in the following issues of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: November 1923, Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 49 ; December 1923, Vol. 1, No. 8, pp. 49; January 1924, Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 49; and February 1924, Vol. 1, No. 10, pp. 65.)

    View of the plant of Union Marble & Tile Co., Inc. Contractors and finishers of interior domestic foreign marble, floor and wall tile.

    Union Marble and Tile Co., Inc., 1109 -27 S. 7th St., St. Louis, Mo.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Union Marble and Tile Company (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, April 1925, Vol. 2, No. 12, pp. 61. This advertisement was also published in the following edition of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: July 1925, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 58.)

    Alabama and Westfield Green Marble was used in this Main Entrance to the St. Louis University High School, St. Louis, Mo. Barnett, Haynes & Barnett, Architects. Marble was used extensively throughout this building and was furnished by the Union Marble and Tile Co.

    Union Marble and Tile Company, 1109-27 South Seventh Blvd., St. Louis, MO.

    William C. Fox, Gen. Mgr.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Union Marble and Tile Company (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, January 1926, Vol. 3, No. 9, pp. 57. The same advertisement was published in the following issues of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: December 1925, Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 57; July 1925, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 71; April 1926, Vol. 3, No. 12, pp. 57; and September 1928, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 57.)

    The pedestal and lampstand are of Alabama marble, with bands of Black and Gold. The Lamb, the bust of Beethoven and the clock are of Colorado Yule marble. These were all fabricated in our plant for a St. Louis residence.

    Union Marble & Tile Compan, 1109-27 South Seventh Blvd., St. Louis, MO.

    William C. Fox, General Manager

    Home Furnishings of Marble

    (pp. 71) The Union Marble and Tile Company is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers Represented in the Membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers” section of this issue. W. C. Fox is listed as their representative.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Union Marble and Tile Company (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, April 1927, Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 44.)

    Roosevelt High School, St. Louis, Mo. All of the 30,000 feet of marble used in this building was Napoleon Gray, finished and installed by the Union Marble & Tile Company. Architect: R. M. Milligan, Commissioner of Schools, St. Louis. Contractor: E. C. Gerhard Building Company.

    Union Marble & Tile Co.

    William C. Fox, General Manager

    1109-27 South Seventh Blvd., St. Louis, Mo.

    (pp. 67) The Union Marble and Tile Company, St. Louis, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” W. C. Fox is listed as the company representative.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Union Marble and Tile Company (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, October 1927, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 54.)

    Arcade and Entrance to City Club of St. Louis and Missouri Hotel. Alabama, Carthage and York Fossil marbles were used extensively throughout this building, and these materials were fabricated and erected by us.

    Union Marble & Tile Company, 1109-27 South Seventh Blvd., St. Louis, MO.

    William C. Fox, General Manager

    T. P. Barnett Co., Architects. Humes-Deal Co., General Contr’s.

    (pp. 65) The Union Marble and Tile Company, St. Louis, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” W. C. Fox is listed as the company representative.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Union Marble and Tile Company (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, September 1928, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 54)

    First National Bank, Jefferson City, Missouri. We fabricated and erected the counter, columns, pilasters and ornament decoration around door openings of Tavernelle Clair marble; the floor is of Pink Tennessee marble. Mauran, Russell and Crowell, Architects, St. Louis, Mo., Simon Construction Company, General Contractors, Columbia, Mo.

    Union Marble and Tile Co.

    William C. Fox, General Manager

    1109-27 S. Seventh Blvd., St. Louis, Mo.

    (pp. 67) The Union Marble and Tile Company is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers Represented in the Membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers” section of this issue. W. C. Fox is listed as their representative.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Union Marble and Tile Company, a member of the St. Louis Marble Manufacturers Credit Association and the National Association of Marble Dealers (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, January 1932, Vol. 9, No. 9, pp. 50.)

    Miniature of a Banking Room in marble, one of eight models now on display in the Building Industries Exhibit Bureau, St. Louis.

    In a spirit of co-operation for the promotion of Marble this page has been subscribed for by the members of the St. Louis Marble Manufacturers Credit Association who are also members of the National Association of Marble Dealers, and whose names are listed below:

    In keeping with the very desirable policy of this magazine it is our intention to show from time to time installations of marble work by various members.

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