John Badman | The Telegraph ALTON — An engineering firm is studying the best way to repair or reconstruct a circa 1800s limestone block wall which supports a city sidewalk and partially collapsed in ...

In a time when stone is primarily used in facades as screen walls or purely decorative cladding, London’s 15 Clerkenwell Close by Groupwork + Amin Taha Architects (ATA) brings structure to the fore ...

The Home for the Friendless memorial in Block 4 on the north edge of Oak Ridge Cemetery is highlighted by a 45-foot-long by three-foot-high garden wall made of Indiana limestone. Bronze plaques on the ...

Before Union and Confederate soldiers battled to decide the slavery question in the Civil War, anti-slavery forces met in Topeka's Constitution Hall to debate the ownership of slaves. On Monday, the ...

Researchers have investigated erosion in the different kinds of limestone in the Western Wall at the foot of Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Stones made up of large crystals were almost unchanged in 2000 ...

When construction workers in Cairo’s suburbs struck a limestone block buried deep under the street, no one expected it to rewrite Egypt’s solar history. What began as a city-side dig soon revealed ...

When it comes to limestone formed by glaciers millions of years ago, who knows or who cares about the tiny differences in color or pattern? Well, Bill Ford did. When it came down to the tiniest detail ...

Growing up in Fredericksburg, Jan Dwyer always loved the classic look of Texas Hill Country houses, with their limestone block walls, large front porches and gabled roofs. At least she loved them from ...

Archaeologists uncovered a carved limestone sculpture of an elderly lord guarding an elite ancient Maya gathering site in Yucatan.