The American Architect
Vol. CXIV
Wednesday, July 10, 1918
Number 2220
A GEORGIA MARBLE QUARRY IN OPERATION
MARBLE AS a building stone, marble has been known
and used from remote antiquity. Its beauty of texture and the high polish that it could be made to assume appealed to the ancient builders, whose barbaric ideas of splendor led them to adopt every material that would lend permanent color and brilliancy to their buildings. Marble was used not only as a main structural material, but also for many decorative purposes, inside and out. Tessellated floors, high wainscots, paneling and in the
many places where stone could be employed marble was the one selected and used as far as it was available in the locality.
Among the ancients the most widely used marbles were Parian and Carrara. Just when these two famous quarries were first opened we have no certain means of knowing, but we do know that the supply has been almost inexhaustible, as the same quarries that furnished the Parian marble for Grecian sculptures, among them the famous Melos
Copyright, 1918, The Architectural & Building Press (Inc.)
Vol. CXIV
Wednesday, July 10, 1918
Number 2220
A GEORGIA MARBLE QUARRY IN OPERATION
MARBLE AS a building stone, marble has been known
and used from remote antiquity. Its beauty of texture and the high polish that it could be made to assume appealed to the ancient builders, whose barbaric ideas of splendor led them to adopt every material that would lend permanent color and brilliancy to their buildings. Marble was used not only as a main structural material, but also for many decorative purposes, inside and out. Tessellated floors, high wainscots, paneling and in the
many places where stone could be employed marble was the one selected and used as far as it was available in the locality.
Among the ancients the most widely used marbles were Parian and Carrara. Just when these two famous quarries were first opened we have no certain means of knowing, but we do know that the supply has been almost inexhaustible, as the same quarries that furnished the Parian marble for Grecian sculptures, among them the famous Melos
Copyright, 1918, The Architectural & Building Press (Inc.)