Names and Origins of Stone - W
| Name of Stone | Origin | Color | Comments |
| Wachenzeeler Dolomite (limestone) | Germany | (5) | |
| Waddington Sandstone | Waddington Quarry Fell Rd, Waddington, Nr. Clitheroe, Lancashire, UK | Buff to grey | (2) |
| Wadesboro Brownstone | Near Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina, USA | Red brown & another variety of chocolate brown | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLIV, No. 9, Sept, 1923 (“This stone occurs in two colors, red-brown and chocolate brown. Both are fine grained and uniform texture. Formerly quarried extensively near Wadesboro, Anson County . Production is now limited. (circa 1923)”) |
| Wakefield Marble | Carroll and Frederick. Counties, Maryland, USA | Colors range from "deep red," "salmon," "lavender veined," "undulated pink and white," "ruby" "to black to white" | (9) |
| Waldoboro Granite | Maine, USA | ||
| Waldstein Granite | Germany | (5) | |
| Waldstein Edelgelb Granite | Germany | (5) | |
| Wallace Freestone | Canada | “Olive and bluish-gray, or light brown, sometimes slightly banded” | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 5, May, 1924 (“Used for building work.”) |
| Walnut Travertine (Travertino Noce) | Latium, Italy | Interior and exterior (12) | |
| Wangmu Flower Granite | China | (5) | |
| Wapanucka Limestone | Oklahoma, USA | Light and dark gray colors | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLIV, No. 12, Dec., 1923 (“An oolitic limestone...Local use only.”) |
| Warsaw Bluestone | Wyoming County, New York, USA | Bluish-gray | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLIV, No. 9, Sept, 1923 (“A fine-grained bluish-gray argillaceous sandstone...It is easily worked and carved and has been widely used for constructional and ornamental work, especially for trimmings.”) |
| Washington Granite | State of Washington, USA - Index, Wash; near Spokane, Wash.; Medical Lake, Wash.; along the Snake River. | Light gray; dark gray; closely banded gneiss | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 3, Mar., 1924 (“Granite is quarried at a number of places in the state of Wash., and whilte it has had some use for building, it is mainly employed for monument bases, curbing, foundations, etc. the leading varieties are a light gray stone, almost a syenite, quarried at Index; a dark gray, closely banded gneiss, quarried near Spokane, and at Medical Lake, and a light gray granite with large crystals of feldspar, quarried along the Snake River.” |
| Warrenburg Sandstone | Carroll County, Missouri, USA | Light gray and red | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLIV, No. 9, Sept, 1923 |
| Wattscliffe Lilac Gritstone | Bolehill Quarry, Wingerworth, Derbyshire, UK | "Lilac to pink in colour with occasional buff/white intrusions" | (2) |
| Waukesha Limestone | Wisconsin, USA | Light buff & bluish | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLIV, No. 12, Dec., 1923 (“A light buff and bluish limestone, used for local building, bridges and monumental work. No idle (in 1923).”) |
| Waupaca Granite | Wisconsin, USA | Mottled red and gray | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 3, Mar., 1924 (“very coarse-grained rock, principally syenite, has feldspar crystals at times 2 inches in size”) |
| Wausau Granite | Wisconsin, USA | Deep red | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 3, Mar., 1924 |
| Waushara Granite | Wisconsin, USA | Dull red | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 3, Mar., 1924 (“Used for paving blocks, crushed granite, and large Grout for breakwater and monumental purposes.”) |
| Wave White Granite | China | (5) | |
| Wellesley Island Granite | The Thousand Islands, New York, USA | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 2, Feb., 1924 (“One of the Thousand Island granites to which description of “ Grindstone Island ” equally applies.”) | |
| West Bangor Slate | West Bangor Quarry, York County, Pennsylvania, USA | ||
| West Cipolin | Vermont, USA | Quarried in Western Vermont ca 1932. (10) | |
| West Point Granite | New York, USA | Dark gray | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 2, Feb., 1924 (“biotite gneiss, veined and broken by more massive granite material.” “Used locally for building at West Point.”) |
| West Point Granite | Near Lohrville, Washington, USA | Red | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 3, Mar., 1924 (“similar in all respects to the Lohrville Mahogany”) |
| West Rutland Italian Marble | Vermont, USA | Quarried by the Vermont Marble Co., 1932, Interior marble. (3 grades) (10) | |
| West Townsend Granite | Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA | From light pink to buff gray | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 1, Jan., 1924 (for structural and monumental purposes) |
| Westerly Granite (3 classes of granite: "white statuary," "blue Westerly" and "red Westerly" | Westerly, Rhode Island, USA | "White Statuary" granite is a pinkish or buff medium gray color; the blue, and the red is described as "a reddish gray diotite granite, speckled with black" | From Mine and Quarry magazine, "Westerly Granite," Sullivan Machinery Co., Publisher, Chicago, Illinois, Vol. VII. No. 2 - January, 1913, page 691) |
| Westland Cippolino Marble | Vermont, USA | Quarried by the Vermont Marble Co., 1932, Interior marble. (10) | |
| Westland Cream Marble | Vermont, USA | Greenish tone with red shades. | Quarried by the Vermont Marble Co., 1932, Interior marble. (10) |
| Westland Cream Vein Marble and Westland Cream Vein D.E. | West Rutland, Vermont, USA | Greenish tone with red veins. | Quarried by the Vermont Marble Co., 1932, Interior marble. (10) |
| Westland Cream Vein D. E. and Westland Cream Vine Green Marble | West Rutland, Vermont, USA | Quarried by the Vermont Marble Co., 1932, Interior marble. (10) | |
| Westland Cream Vein Marble E. F. G. | West Rutland, Vermont, USA | Quarried by the Vermont Marble Co., 1932, Interior marble. (10) | |
| Westland Siena Marble | West Rutland, Vermont, USA | Quarried by the Vermont Marble Co., 1932, Interior marble. (10) | |
| Westland Verde Verde Marble | West Rutland, Vermont, USA | Quarried by the Vermont Marble Co., 1932, Interior marble. (10) | |
| Westwood Ground Limestone | Westwood Quarry Bradford on Avon, Wilts, UK | Buff | Oolitic limestone (2) |
| Wetsombed Purbeck Limestone | Lander's Quarry Kingston Road, Langton Matravers, Dorset, UK | "Stone varies in colour with the Wetsombed being a buff-grey colour with numerous pieces of brownish coloured shell." | (2) |
| Wetsom Purbeck Limestone | Swanage Quarry Panorama Road, Swanage, Dorset, UK | "Stone varies in colour with the Wetsom being a buff -grey colour with numerous pieces of buff Coloured shell." | (2) |
| Weymouth Seam Face Granite | Massachusetts, USA | See: Seam Face Granite | |
| Wheatley Limestone | East of Oxford -Headington Quarry | ||
| Whetstone Granite | Milbank, South Dakota, USA | Brownish red | Quarried by Dakota Granite Co. (1) |
| Whetstones - Novaculite | Arkansas, USA | ||
| Whistler White Granite | Canada | (5) | |
| White Andromeda Marble | Sri Lanka | Interior and exterior (12) | |
| White Andromeda Granite | Brazil | (5) | |
| White or Danby Marble | Vermont, USA | “Faintly cream-tinted, somewhat translucent, with yellow, greenish-gray irregular streaks or mottlings. (Vermont State Geological Survey)” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Through The Ages, mag., 1907; 1994 the MIA) |
| White Beola (Beola Bianca) | Novara, Piedmont region, Italy | Interior and exterior (12) | |
| White Cherokee Marble | USA | White | (5) |
| White Colorado Yule Marble or Colorado Yule White | “Quarried on Yule Creek, near Marble, Gunnison County, Colorado.” USA | “White, with streaks of bluish tint and traces of clouding.” | (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Through The Ages, mag., 1907; 1994 the MIA) |
| "White Cross Cut" Travertine | Montana | White | Montana Travertine (3) |
| White Freedley Marble | “Open Quarry, Freedley, Vermont.” USA | “Extremely light bluish gray. (Vermont State Geological Survey)” | “Freedley White or White Freedley Marble...(Opened in 1909.)” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Through The Ages, mag., Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA) |
| White Galaxy Granite | India | (5) | |
| White Georgia Marble | USA | White | (5) |
| White Granite | Canada, Egypt | (5) | |
| White Halaieb Granite | Egypt | (5) | |
| White Lake Granite | Oneida County, New York, USA | Pink | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 2, Feb., 1924 (gneissoid rock) |
| White Mt. Airy Granite | Mt. Airy, North Carolina, USA | “very light gray granite whose predominating colors are black and white with a few quartz crystals that are a faint pink scattered through it.” | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 3, Mar., 1924 (building & monumental work) |
| White Norwegian Marble | “Quarried near Fauskeidet, Northland, Norway.” | “White with slightly bluish cast rather loosely grained.” | F. O. White Norwegian or Norwegian White “...Quarry opened in 1890 by Norwegian interests who transferred the property to a Danish Company, who erected a large finishing plant at the quarry. The available information seems to indicate that they have not been successful, due perhaps to the softness of the material which makes it unfit for exterior use in northern climes.” (from “List of the World’s Marbles,” Through The Ages, mag., Nat. Assoc. of Marble Dealers/MIA)” |
| White Pavonazzo Marble | Vermont, USA | Quarried by the Vermont Marble Co., at some time prior to 1932. (10) | |
| White Perlino Marble (Perlino Bianco) | Veneto, Italy | Interior (12) | |
| White Rutland Marble | West Rutland, Vermont, USA | Very light or white. | Quarried by Vermont Marble Co. in 1932. (10) |
| White Rutland Building Marble | Vermont, USA | Quarried by the Vermont Marble Co., 1932. (10) | |
| White San Marcos Granite White | Argentina | (5) | |
| White Stone Brook Marble | White Stone Brook Quarry on Dorset Mountain, Vermont, USA | Coarse calcite marble of faintly cream-tinted, somewhat translucent color, with fine yellow-greenish-gray streaks | |
| White Tennessee Marble | Tennessee | ||
| White Veria Marble | Greece | (5) | |
| White Yule Marble | Crystal River Canyon near Marble, Colorado, USA | White | AKA Yule Colorado Marble |
| Whitewater Classico Granite | Canada | (5) | |
| Willow City Serpentine | Texas, USA | ||
| “Wind Drift” Sandstone | Idaho USA | ||
| Winfield Limestone | Kansas, USA | Light colored | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLIV, No. 12, Dec., 1923 (“A light colored fine-grained cellular limestone. Soft and easily worked. Local use.”) |
| Windsor Granite | Vermont, USA | Dark olive-green | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 3, Mar., 1924 |
| Windsor Red Stone | East Windsor, Connecticut, USA | Red | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLIV, No. 9, September, 1923 ) (“Used for building.”) |
| Winfield Stone (limestone) | Winfield, Kansas, USA | Also known as Cowley County Limestone. | |
| Winnsboro Blue Granite | South Carolina, USA | Bluish-gray | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 3, Mar., 1924 (for monuments) |
| Winona Dolomite Limestone | Minnesota, USA | Buff | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLIV, No. 12, Dec., 1923 |
| Winona Travetine | Winona,Minnesota, USA | A dolomitic limestone | |
| Winooski Marble | Swanton,Vermont Colchester, Vermont | Red-and-white mottled. | See “Pubs. On Vt. Marbles” in “The Commercial Marbles of Western Vermont” |
| Winterhausen Limestone | Germany | (5) | |
| Wisconsin Granite | Wisconsin, USA | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 3, Mar., 1924 (“Wisconsin granite is found in nearly one-third of the area of Wisconsin and it differs widely in color, crystallization and composition. quartz porphyries or rhyolites are also sold under the name of granite....”) | |
| Wissahickon Schist | West of Philadelphia, USA | ||
| Woodbury Granite | Woodbury, Vermont, USA | White | Quarried by Swenson Granite Co., Inc. (1) |
| Wood Gray Granite | India | Light to medium gray | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 3, Mar., 1924 (for buildings & monumental work) |
| Woodbury Bashaw Granite | Vermont, USA | Bluish-gray | Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 3, Mar., 1924 |
| Woodkirk Sandstone - Brown | Britannia Quarries Rein Road, Morley, Leeds, UK | Grey- buff to light brown, darkens with age | Quarried in the area since the 18th century |
| Woodkirk Sandstone - Type 'M' | Britannia Quarries Rein Road, Morley, Leeds, UK | Grey- buff to light brown, darkens with age | (2) |
| Woodstock Granite | Quarried near Granite in both Baltimore and Howard Counties, Maryland, USA | Pinkish-toned, coarse-grained, gray granitic rock | (9) & Stone Magazine, Vol. XLV, No. 1, Jan., 1924 (used for building, monumental & paving purposes) |
| Wroxton Limestone |
Horton Grounds Quarry Alkerton, Nr Banbury, Oxon, UK |
"Greenish-blue or brown or can be a combination of all of these colours" | (2) |
| "Wyoming Valley" Stone (Sandstone) | Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, USA |
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