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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 have dated an engraving of a vulva found on a one-and-a-half-ton limestone block at Abri Castanet, a collapsed rock shelter in France, to about 37,000 years ago. That figure, however, ...

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