From the steps of settlers’ cabins to the steeple of the National Cathedral, Indiana-quarried limestone is known nationwide as both a “workhorse of building stones” and a symbol of permanency. “You ...
Many of Indiana University's buildings are faced with limestone, giving the campus a unified aesthetic, and there are a number of the architectural styles represented. Saturday, a walking tour ...
Nearly all the United States’ greatest structures—the Empire State Building, the Washington National Cathedral, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to name just a few—owe much of their grandeur to a ...
Walking through IU’s Old Crescent near the Sample Gates, one notices that most of the buildings are made out of Indiana limestone. Buildings such as Franklin Hall, Lindley Hall and the Student ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana company that supplied limestone to the Empire State Building, the Pentagon and other iconic buildings is going out of business and laying off its 166 ...
Landmarks: South Side shop still sets stones from Indiana that fostered Chicago’s ‘White City’ style
The rocks embedded in the exterior of Chicago’s Tribune Tower famously were collected by newspaper correspondents on assignment in far flung locales. The nearly 150 stones are pieces of famous ...
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