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Marble for this monument was purchased from the Vermont Marble Company of Proctor, Vermont. "The Hawley Sarcophagus, built in our Shops for W. P. Pratt, Chatham, N. Y. It now rests within the Mausoleum which was reared in memory of Edwin Hawley, the Railroad Magnate."
Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints – The exterior of the Birmingham Alabama Temple is made of white marble from the Danby quarry in Vermont.
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.”
Granite from Barre, Vermont, was used to build the Stanford Mausoleum. The mausoleum was completed in 1893.
Marble from the Barney Marble Company Serpentine Quarry located south of Roxbury Station, Vermont, was used for the Delaware Columns and panels (10 feet 6 inches by 4 feet 2 inches).
Granite quarried from the Barclay Granite Quarry in Barre, Vermont, was used in the construction of the canopy of the Hancock Memorial.
“San Francisco Notes.
“The marble and granite industry has become quite an important feature of Pacific Coast business and besides the local firms, many of the large eastern concerns are represented by branch establishments carrying considerable stock.
“W. S. Brown & Co., whose works are situated on Mission street, make a specialty of interior decorative work in marble and granite. They executed the vestibule in the new Spreckels building on Market street. The floors are of Italian and the ceiling and wainscoting in Vermont marbles….”
According to a segment of KRON 4 news aired on Wednesday, November 9, 2005, the large pieces of marble used for the fountain was quarried in Vermont.
Granite from the Vermont White Quarry located in Woodbury, Washington, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Bridgeport Trust Building.
Granite from the Woodbury and Ellis Quarries located at Dummerston, Bethel, Windsor County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Hartford City Hall.
Granite from the Woodbury and Ellis Quarries located at Dummerston, Bethel, Windsor County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the State Library.
White marble from the Eastman Marble Prospect located on the west side of West Rutland, Vermont, was used in the construction of the interior of the Connecticut Savings Bank.
Most of the external construction material was sandstone from a quarry on Table Rock, east of Boise, which the state purchased for use in building the capitol building. For the interior, four types of marble were used: Reddish-pink marble from Georgia for trim, gray marble from Alaska with inlaid near black Italian marble on the floors and four grand staircases, green swirled marble from Vermont for the walls, and the black marble is from Italy.
Granite quarried from the Four Robeson Mountain quarries located at Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Soldiers and Sailors' Monument.
Dorset Dark Green Veined marble was used in the interior of the building. The quarry was owned and operated by the Norcross-West Marble Co.
The Court House was constructed of Woodbury Gray Granite.
Granite quarried from the Four Robeson Mountain quarries located at Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the consruction of the Cook County Courthouse.
According to Paul Wood’s article, granite from the Woodbury, Vermont, supplied by the Woodbury Granite Co. of Hardwick Vermont, was used in the construction of the Chicago City Hall.
Granite quarried from the Fletcher Quarry located at Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Englewood National Bank.
Marble from the Barney Marble Company Serpentine Quarry located south of Roxbury Station, Vermont, was used in the construction of the First National Bank building.
“Second Statuary” marble from the Vermont Marble Company’s West Rutland Quarries Marble Quarry located on the east side of West Rutland, Vermont was used in the construction of the Kimball Monument at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.
Granite quarried from the Black Mountain Quarry located at Dumerston, Windham County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the McFadden Building.
Marble from the New York Marble Quarry located on Dorset Mountain near Dorset, Vermont, was used almost entirely in the construction of the Wheeler residence in Chicago. (The exact location of the residence is not given.)
Marble from the Barney Marble Company Serpentine Quarry located south of Roxbury Station, Vermont, was used for the wainscoting in the Post Office in Danville, Illinois.
The Tomb of Timothy Rogers was built by the Burlington Manufacturing Co. of Vermont, of Marble from marble quarried in North Pittsford, Vermont. The architect was George W. Bunting, Indianapolis, Indiana. (The card does not indicate in what cemetery the tomb is located.)
Granite quarried from the Barclay Quarry located at Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was usedin the construction of the Indian Massacre Memorial.
The slate on the roof of the building "...was quarried from the Maine and western Vermont slate belt by the Rising and Nelson Slate Company of West Pawlett, Vermont...."
Granite quarried from the Jones Light Granite Quarry located at Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Gary Mausoleum. The book also states that the roof stones were of the "light," 35 by 9 feet 6 inches by 1 foot 6 inches each.
Granite from the Jones Light granite quarry located at Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Angola.
Marble from the Barney Marble Company Serpentine Quarry located south of Roxbury Station, Vermont, was used for the tiling in the Indianapolis City Hall.
Granite quarried from the Barclay Quarry located at Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Senator Dillon Shaft.
Granite quarried from the Vermont White Quarry located at Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Soldiers and Sailors' Memorial in Wichita.
Granite quarried from the Four Robeson Mountain Quarries located at Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the base course and 36 interior polished columns.
Granite quarried from the Fletcher Quarry located at Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Lincoln Savings Bank.
Marble for this monument was purchased from the Vermont Marble Company of Proctor, Vermont. "The Eveleth-Crafts Mausoleum, Greenville, ME., chiseled out of grey building marble."
Granite quarried from the Smith Upper Quarry located at Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Tuxbury Exedra.
Granite quarried from the Jones Light Quarry located at Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Goodall Monument in Sanford, Maine.
"Dorset White" marble was used in the construction of the bank building from quarries operated by Norcross-West Marble Co.
Marble for this monument was purchased from the Vermont Marble Company of Proctor, Vermont. "The Receiving Vault, Woodlawn Cemetery, Baltimore, Md., the contract for which was secured by Wm. A. Gault and Son."
Marble for this monument was purchased from the Vermont Marble Company of Proctor, Vermont. "The Chambers Mausoleum, moulded out of Florence marble for J. H. Sloan, Elkton, Md."
Dorset marble was used in the exterior construction of the building about 1909. The quarry was owned and operated by Norcross-West Marble Co.
Red slate shingles from quarries near Granville, New York; green slate shingles from near Fair Haven, Vermont, and Black slate shingles from Monson Maine.
220,000 cubic feet of "Dorset Plateau" marble was used in construction of the building. The quarry was owned and operated by the Norcross-West Marble Co.
Granite quarried from the Four Robeson Mountain Quarries located in Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Mandell residence in Boston.
Dorset marble was used in the construction of the building. The quarry was owned and operated by Norcross-West Marble Co.
“Dorset, Vermont - Dorset Historical Society’s former board members Art Gilbert and Terry Tyler are all smiles now that the marble mile-marker monuments and sculpting blocks have been delivered to the Dorset Historical Society Bley House Museum , located on Vermont Route 30 in Dorset . A slab and a block of Plateau marble weighing a total of 13 tons were donated by Kirsten and Dick McDonough, owners of the Norcross-West quarries of South Dorset....”“The Plateau Marble was chosen for some of the most prestigious buildings beginning with 4 monoliths for columns of the Montreal Fine Arts Museum, cornerstone for the New York Public Library, cornices and columns for the Harvard Medical School, the building of the Plaza Hotel and DAR in Washington, D.C., to name a few....”
Granite quarried from the Woodbury and Ellis Quarries located at Dummerston, Bethel, Windsor County, Vermont, were used in the construction of the Eddy Memorial, which is locatedin Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Marble from the New York Marble Quarry located on Dorset Mountain near Dorset, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Chelsea Bank.
Marble from the Albertson Marble Quarry located on the east side of West Rutland, Vermont, was used to construct St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church at Fall River.
Granite quarried from the Woodbury and Ellis Quarries located at Dummerston, Bethel, Windsor, Vermont, was used in teh construction of the Franklin Savings Bank in Greenfield.
Marble for this monument was purchased from the Vermont Marble Company of Proctor, Vermont. "The Costello Chapel, Lowell, Mass., another tribute to Vermont Marble. Designed by F. Joseph Untersee, Boston."
Granite quarried from the Four Robeson Mountain Quarries located at Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Post Office in New Bedford.
Granite quarried from the Norcross Quarry located at Windsor, Vermont, was used for the die in the W.C.T.U Fountain in Orange, Massachusetts.
Dorset marble was used in the exterior construction of the bank about 1909. The quarry was owned and operated by Norcross-West Marble Co.
"Dorset Aeolian" marble was used in the interior of the building, according to this 1909 article.
Marble from the Fisk Marble Quarry located on Isle La Motte, Vermont, was use, in addition to marble from Swanton, Vermont, for the wainscoting in the Post Office building.
Dorset marble was used in the construction of the building. The quarry was owned and operated by Norcross-West Marble Co.
The marble for the bowl of the fountain was quarried by the Vermont Marble Company.
Granite quarried from the four Robeson Mountain quarries located at Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Hotel Pontchartrain.
“Harrison & Co. of Adrian, Mich., are contractors for a large receiving tomb to be erected in Mount Elliot Cemetery at Detroit, Mich., and not in Elmwood as incorrectly stated in our last issue. The design is original with them and will be built of Barre granite from their own quarries. It will be illustrated in these pages before the work is completed.”
The Detroit Public Library. According to a 1930 Vermont Marble Company advertisement, marble from the Imperial Danby Marble quarries in Vermont was used in the construction of the library building. The architect was Cass Gilbert.
A sixty-three-ton block of marble quarried at Pittsford Valley by the Vermont Marble Co. was used to construct the Scott Memorial Fountain.
"The bank was established at the intersection of Utica and Townline (now 14 Mile) roads on July 11, 1910." The build was constructed of Bedford, Indiana, limestone in 1930. Gray Tennessee marble, and Botticino marble from Italy, and antique Vermont marble was used in the interior.
Granite quarried from the Smith Upper Quarry located at Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Kaufman Mausoleum in Marquette, Michigan.
Granite quarried from the Four Robeson Mountain quarries located at Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont was used in the construction of the Memorial Archway in Port Huron, Michigan.
Granite quarried from the Woodbury and Ellis quarries located at Dummerston, Bethel, Windsor County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Congdon residence in Duluth, Minnesota.
Granite quarried from the Vermont White Quarry located at Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Museum of Fine Arts in Minneapolis.
Granite quarried from teh Fletcher Quarry located at Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Plymouth building in Minnesapolis.
According to Paul Wood’s article, granite from the Woodbury, Vermont, supplied by the Woodbury Granite Co. of Hardwick Vermont, was used in the construction of the Pro-Cathedral.
According to the the Saint Paul, Minnesota, Geology Walking Tour web site presented by Jeremy D. Johnson, White Vermont granite and Platteville limestone quarried in Minnesota were two of the types of stone used in the construction of the building
According to the the Saint Paul, Minnesota, Geology Walking Tour web site presented by Jeremy D. Johnson, white Vermont marble and Cold Spring Green granite were used in the construction of the building.
According to the the Saint Paul, Minnesota, Geology Walking Tour web site presented by Jeremy D. Johnson, the base of the building was constructed with Charcoal Black granite, and white Vermont marble was used in the construction of the building.
Granite quarried from the Barclay Quarry located in Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the First North Dakota Soldiers' Memorial.
Granite quarried from the Four Robeson Mountain Quarries located at Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont was used in the construction of the Navy Memorial in the National Military Park in Vicksburg.
“...The columns in the Senate chamber are Royal Antique marble, with white Vermont marble bases and caps....”
Marble from several different countries were was in the building's interior including marbles from the Pyrennes in southwestern France; travertine marble from Tivoli in Italy, and Verde Antique marble from Vermont.
Granite quarried from the Woodbury and Ellis Quarries located at Dummerston, Bethel, Windsor, County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Swope Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.
Granite quarried from the Smith Upper Quarry located at Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the pedestal of the Equestrian Statue of St. Louis located in St. Louis, Missouri. The pedestal was erected by W. R. Hodges.
“Mr. Matthew Park of Matthew Park’s Son & Co., St. Louis, Mo., is now erecting in ‘Chamberlain Park’ a very fine house, which he will occupy with his family when finished. The entire front including a porch will be of random ashlar of St. Lawrence marble, and the window sills and all steps of the same material. The porch columns are of dark Barre granite. The house will be over 30 feet wide by 60 feet deep, setting back 40 feet from the pavement with a terrace of 5 steps. The parlor will be in white and gold and the lower floor will be finished in white oak, partly quarter sawed. Considerable marble work will be introduced and the house throughout will be lighted by electricity and will have all the latest improvements.”
Granite quarried from the Smith Upper Quarry located in Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Lemp Mausoleum in St. Louis, Missouri.
Granite quarried from the Four Robeson Mountain quarries located at Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Mercantile Trust Co. building in St. Louis, Missouri.
The St. Louis Missouri LDS Temple was constructed of "cast stone and Bethal white granite from Vermont."
Granite quarried from the Fletcher quarry located at Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Courthouse in Omaha, Nebraska.
This Art Deco building opened in November 1931. Vermont Green slate is one of the floor materials used in the galleries. The adjacent corridors are of white Botticino marble from Italy with Badger Pink floors. In the Witherspoon Concert Hall St. Genevieve Rose and Westfield green marbles are used. The sunburst in the floor is of Vermont Green slate.
"The 10,700 square foot temple's exterior is made of gray granite from a quarry in Sharon, Vermont, the birthplace of Joseph Smith, the founder of the church."
Granite quarried from the Barclay Quarry located at Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Doctor Kimball Memorial in Concord, New Hampshire.
The marble for the memorial was quarried by the Vermont Marble Company. Augustus Saint Gardens, the sculptor of the memorial.
Granite quarried from the Liberty Hill Quarry located at Rochester, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Dartmouth College gymnasium.
"Italian stone cutters, from Boston, were hired by Bryant to cut the stone from granite glacial boulders on the hill behind the Chellis Farm. These stone were hauled to the church location by horse drawn wheeled drays. After the stonemasons had split a stockpile of the stone, the men of the church would have a "bee" and draw the stone to the building site.(31) These stones have a pink tinge to them. There are grey granite stones, in the entry ways, that were purchased from the Barre, Vermont, granite quarries."
Granite quarried from the Benzie Quarry located at Groton, Caldeonia County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Davison Monument in Woodsville.
Granite quarried from the Woodbury and Ellis Quarries located at Dummerston, Bethel, Windsor County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Theodore N. vail residence in Morristown, New Jersey.
Granite quarried from the Jones Light Quarry located at Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Krueger Mausoleum in Newark.
Green and cream-pink marble from the Eastman Marble Prospect located on the west side of West Rutland, Vermont, was used in the construction of the interior of the Prudential building.
Marble for this monument was purchased from the Vermont Marble Company of Proctor, Vermont. "The Griffith Memorial, delivered to Bills Brothers, Denver, Colo., and placed by them in the cemetery at Carlsbad, N. M."
The marble used in the construction of the building was quarried at the Clarendon Marble Company's quarry at Clarendon, Vermont, about 1912. The marble is pure white. 72,000 cubic feet of stone was used, which, "included 23 free columns, 62 feet high and about four feet seven inches in diameter."
Granite quarried from the Lacasse Quarry located at Derby, Orleans County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Prison-Ship Martyrs' Monument in Brooklyn.
Marble from the green beds from the Eastman Marble Prospect located on the west side of West Rutland, Vermont, was used in the construction of the interior of Greenpoint Savings Bank.
Granite quarried from the Fletcher Quarry located at woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Crandell Monument in Crandall Park, Glen Falls, New York.
Granite quarried from the Woodbury and Ellis Quarries located at Dummerston, Bethel, Windsor County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the American Bank Note building in New York.
Granite quarried from the Norcross quarry in Windsor, Vermont, was used for the 15 polished columns at the Columbia University Library in New York.
According to Paul Wood’s article, gray granite from Woodbury, Vermont, supplied by the Woodbury Granite Co. of Hardwick, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Bankers Trust Co. building.
Marble from the Vermont Marble Company’s West Rutland Quarries Marble Quarry located on the east side of West Rutland, Vermont was used in the construction of the marble and the statues at the Chamber of Commerce building in New York.
JAIC Online – Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Volume 16, 1977 – Volume 38, 1999.
Introduction (The Metropolitan Club)
The Building: Design And Construction
The Stone
Conservation Program
Conclusions
500,000 cubic feet of "Dorset White" marble was used in the exterior and interior of the library building from quarries operated by Norcross-West Marble Co.
Cream and white marble from the Eastman Marble Prospect located on the west side of West Rutland, Vermont, was used in the construction of the carved work border near the ceiling and a large mantel in the New York Public Library.
“Dorset, Vermont - Dorset Historical Society’s former board members Art Gilbert and Terry Tyler are all smiles now that the marble mile-marker monuments and sculpting blocks have been delivered to the Dorset Historical Society Bley House Museum, located on Vermont Route 30 in Dorset . A slab and a block of Plateau marble weighing a total of 13 tons were donated by Kirsten and Dick McDonough, owners of the Norcross-West quarries of South Dorset ....”“The Plateau Marble was chosen for some of the most prestigious buildings beginning with 4 monoliths for columns of the Montreal Fine Arts Museum, cornerstone for the New York Public Library, cornices and columns for the Harvard Medical School, the building of the Plaza Hotel and DAR in Washington, D.C., to name a few....”
Granite quarried from the Black Mountain Quarry at Dummerston, Windham County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Plaza Hotel.
Granite quarried from the Black Mountain Quarry located at Dummerston, Windham County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Royal Baking Powder Building in New York City.
Marble from the Freedley Marble Quarries located on Dorset Mountain near Dorset, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument on Riverside Drive in New York.
“The Secretariat Building is a 39 story monolith structure of glass and steel, faced with Vermont marble. Here are assembled the representatives of the nations of the world dedicated to the ideals laid out in the chart of the United Nations.”
Marble from the Freedley Marble Quarries located on Dorset Mountain near Dorset, Vermont, was used in the construction of the southeast corner of Wall and Broad streets, New York.
“Best white Rutland building” marble from the Vermont Marble Company’s West Rutland Quarries Marble Quarry located on the east side of West Rutland, Vermont was used in the construction of the Taylor Mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York.
The Palmyra New York Temple was constructed with Bethel white granite from Vermont.
"Dorset White" marble was used in the construction of the church from quarries operated by Norcross-West Marble Co.
Marble from the Eastman Marble Prospect located on the west side of West Rutland, Vermont, was used in the construction of the interior of the railroad station in Schenectady.
Marble for this monument was purchased from the Vermont Marble Company of Proctor, Vermont. "The 'Last Supper,' executed by one of our carvers from a celebrated French model of Leonardo's masterpiece. It forms a part of the altar in St. Mary's Church, Ticonderoga, N. Y."
Granite quarried from the Black Mountain Quarry located at Dummerston, Windham County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Troy Post Office.
Granite quarried from the Smith Upper Quarry located at Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Cluett Obelisk in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Troy, New York. (The obelisk has a 44-foot shaft.)
Granite quarried from the Smith Upper Quarry located at Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Hageman Mausoleum in Hageman Mauscoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery in Troy, New York.
Granite quarried from the Jones Light Quarry located at Barre, Washington County, Vermont, was used in the construction of the Hearn Monument in Woodlawn, New York. The monument has a monolithic spire 53 by 4 feet by 4 feet.
(The) “smaller” temple situated on a 12-acre site was built is just under 10 months. It's facade features Danby white marble (quarried in Vermont) with art glass windows.
According to this 1929 advertisement - not shown here - marble from the Vermont Marble Company was used in the construction of the Duke University Auditorium. The architect was Horace Trumbauer, and the advertisement art was by George Marsh. Ad for the Vermont Marble Company features the Duke University Auditorium in Durham.
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