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Stone Magazine Article List - 1920

(The articles listed below are located in various issues of Stone Magazine. The advertisements, etc. are not included in some of the issues. Peggy B. Perazzo)

Stone Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 1, January, 1920.

“Decrease in Italian Marble Imports,” pp. 21-22.

“Ohio’s State Quarry,” pp. 22.

Cooperative Apartments for Canada,” pp. 22.( Vancouver )

“A Fine Stone Bank in the South,” pp. 22. (Whitney Central Bank Annex, New Orleans, Louisiana )

“Outlook in the Building Field,” pp. 23-24.

(Photo caption) “Sculpted panel in a Marble Altar,” Portion of altar in the Vicentian Convent at Albany, cut in White Vermont marble.

(Photo caption) “Carved Marble Ecclesiastical Work,” Altar panel in Vicentian Convent, Albany .

Sale of a Great Skyscraper,” pp. 24 ( City Investment Building, Broadway and Cortlandt St., New York )

“Notable Stonework in a New York Church,” pp. 25. ((St. Vincent Ferrer, 66 th street and Lexington Avenue )

(Photo caption) “Entrance of St. Vincent Ferrer Church ”

“The Monument Granite Industry,” pp. 25-26

“Will Retain Granite Paving,” pp. 26. ( First Street, Troy, New York )

“Redressed Granite Blocks,” pp. 26. (granite paving blocks at Nashville, Tennessee )

“Paving for One-Way Streets,” pp. 26. ( New Orleans, Louisiana )

“Banks and Bank Buildings,” pp. 27-28.

“Standardized Sizes for Crushed Stone,” pp. 28. (highway departments of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland )

“A Home for the Curb Market,” pp. 28.

“Magnesite for Flooring,” pp. 28.

“Building in New York City,” pp. 28.

Tabriz and Synnadian Marble,” pp. 28.

“A Famous Classical Model for a Mausoleum,” pp. 28-29. (Reproduction of “The Tower of the Winds,” Athens, Greece, as a family mausoleum commissioned by Mrs. Arthur Davis Lee of Elkins, W. Va., daughter of the late Henry Gassoway Davis by Davis Memorial Company of Syracuse, New York.)

“Foreign Trade Service in Construction Work,” pp. 29.

(Photo caption) “ Concrete Bridge at St. Boniface, Manitoba .” Built over Seine River in 1910.

“Using Carved Stone from a Wrecked Building,” pp. 29. (ornate stonework from the old Customs Building at Toronto, Ontario, incorporated into section of a new front to the Colonial Theatre, City Hall Square, Toronto, Canada .)

“The Talcs of Italy,” pp. 29.

“Induration of Stone,” pp. 31.

“Important Changes in a Leading Limestone Company,” pp. 31. (W. McMillan & son, quarrymen and stone contractors, moved their head offices from Chicago to Bedford, Indiana .)

“Texas Stone Companies Enlarge Plants,” pp. 31-32. (Texas Stone Company, south of Chico, Wise County, Texas )

“Architects of Synagogne (sic) B’nai Jeshurun,” pp. 32. (letter to editor from Walter S. Schneider, Architect, New York )

“Method for Drawing a Curve: One With a Large Radius, Where the Length of the Chord is Unknown,” pp. 33-34

Stone Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 2, February, 1920.

“Quarrying and Road Building,” pp. 67-68.

“States Planning War Memorials,” pp. 68. (Alabama, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, new Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, south Carolina, South Dakota, and Tennessee)

“Building Activity in Canada,” pp. 68.

“French Embargo on Slate and Tiles,” pp. 68.

“Building Boom the World Over,” pp. 69-70.

(Photo caption) “New Custom House at Wilmington, N. C.” ( North Carolina )

“New York’s New Court House,” pp. 71-72.

(Photo caption) “Carved Marble Pulpit, Holy Name Roman Catholic Church, New York, of white Italian marble.

“Finnish Granite Excellent and Beautiful,” pp. 72.

“Granite Quarries in Perris Mountains,” pp. 72. (black and gray granite in Perris, Riverside County, California )

“Mica and Asbestos from Hongkong,” pp. 72-73.

“Building Activities in New York Cities,” pp. 73.

Florida Gypsum Suitable for Building,” pp. 73.

“The Use of Milled Slate,” pp. 73.

“The Talc and Soapstone Industry,” pp. 73 - 74.

(Photo caption) “Fluting Marble Columns” at plant of the Phenix Marble Co., Kansas City, Missouri .

“Cleaning Marble Statues,” pp. 74.

“Expansion of Marble,” pp. 74.

“Society of Architects Protest,” pp. 74.

“A Colossal Stone Statue for France,” pp. 74. (stone statue from America to be erected at Meaux on the Marne, France )

“Stone Machinery Needed in Costa Rica,” pp. 74.

“Japanese Stone Men Visit American Quarries,” pp. 76.

“Limestone as Fuel,” pp. 76.

“Stone Men in Convention,” 78-79. (twentieth annual convention of the International Cut Stone Contractors’ and Quarrymen’s Association, Inc., at Congress Hall, Chicago, January 21 and 22, 1920)

“Meeting of the New Jersey Monument Men,” pp. 79. (meeting of the New Jersey Retail Monument Dealers’ Association, at the Hotel Continental, Newar, New Jersey, February 3 and 4)

“Indiana Limestone Quarrymen’s Association,” pp. 79. (Indiana Limestone Quarrymen’s Association)

Stone Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 5, May, 1920.

“Get Together and Build,” pp. 223-224. (building after World War I)

“Model for a Bahai Temple Near Chicago,” pp. 224.

Will Cut Granite for the Cathedral Nave,” pp. 224. (the Cathedral of St. John the Divine)

“Seeking a Granite Boulder,” pp. 224.

“Developing a Great Granite Quarry,” pp. 225-226. (Granite for New York ’s “old” post office was from Dix Island, Maine )

(Photo caption) “Statue for the Lincoln Memorial at Washington . Sculptor: Daniel Chester French. The statue is about twenty-two feet in height, is made in sections, and is carved in White Georgia marble from the Georgia Marble Company’s quarries at Tate, Ga. ” pp. 225-226.

(Photo caption) “Assembling the Lincoln Statue. Putting together the sections of the heroic figure inside of the Lincoln Memorial at Washington .” (D.C.)

“To Quarry Limestone Near Rochester,” pp. 226.

“A Stone Polishing Machine in France,” pp. 226-227.

“Waste Granite in the Barre District,” pp. 227. ( Vermont )

(Photo caption) “Corner of a Tennessee Marble Quarry. Portion of the pink marble quarry of the John J. Craig Company, near Knoxville .” pp. 227.

(Photo caption) Tennessee Marble Blocks on the Bank. Output of the ‘Diamond T’ pink marble quarry of the John J. Craig Company, near Knoxville .” pp. 227.

“A Very Old Carved Marble Font,” pp. 227.

“Building Operations in 1919,” pp. 229.

“The Granite Situation,” pp. 229.

“Brooklyn’s War Memorials,” pp. 229. ( New York )

“Granite Memorials for Syracuse,” pp. 229.

“International Association News,” by Walter W. Drayer, President, pp. 230-231.

“Practical Stone-Cutting and Drafting: Cylindrical Vaulting and Domes,” Part II, pp. 232-233. (to be continued)

(Engraving) Tewksbury Abbey, England . One of the finest abbey churches in Great Britain ; from a sketch by Laurence Davies.”

Stone Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 5, June, 1920.

“A Good Outlook for Lime,” pp. 375-376.

“A New White Silica Building Stone,” pp. 276. (located 90 miles south of Memphis, in North Mississippi, along Big Bear Creek)

Sale of Old Quarry Lands,” pp. 276. (the Brainerd, Shaler & Hall Quarry Co. Co. o fo Portland, Connecticut, sold the Connecticut Freestone Quarry located in Cromwell. The other quarry was located near Cromwell meadows, west of property of Louis Kabatznick. At one time owned by the Brainerd Quarry conveyed to the Brainer, Shaler & hall Quarry Co.)

“Work Resumed on Another Great Cathedral,” pp. 276. (the Liverpool Cathedral)

“Recutting Stone from an Old Building,” pp. 277-278.

(Photo caption) “Block of Stone from an Old Building Being Recut. Indiana limestone from a twenty-one-years-old residence dressed for use in a new commercial building.”

“Precious Stones Inlaid in Marble,” pp. 278.

“Quarries Barred in City Limits When a Nuisance,” pp. 278. (in Montana )

“Skyscrapers Here and Elsewhere,” pp. 278-279.

“Building Activities in New York Cities,” pp. 279.

“Colossal Statue of Columbus in Marble,” pp. 279-280. (Statue of Christopher Columbus in Buenos Aires, South America )

(Photo caption) “Blocks of Recut Stone. Indiana limestone taken from an old building and prepared for use in a new building.”

“Activity in the Indiana Limestone Field,” pp. 280.

(Photo caption) “One Month’s Quarrying. Stack at the Dark Hollow Quarry of the Consolidated Stone Company, Bedford.”

“A Cathedral Half a Century in Building,” pp. 280. (the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Colman at Queenstown, Ireland )

“The Great Potash Deposits of Germany,” pp. 280.

“Good Limestone in Peru,” pp. 280.

“Will Develop Arkansas Marble Deposit,” pp. 280. (located near Lone Rock, Arkansas )

Novel Garden Ornaments,” pp. 280-281.

(Photo caption) “Garden Ornament Featuring the American Star. Model cut in Caen stone by Charles Maurice Dunn of the local Marble Cutters’ Union ”

(Photo caption) “Model of Garden Ornament. Cut in Caen limestone by Charles M. Dunn, showing the five-pointed star.”

“Sand from the Great Lakes,” pp. 281.

“The Road Building Problem,” pp. 281.

“Wage Adjustment in the Carrara Marble Field,” pp. 282-283.

“Misrouting of Lime,” pp. 283. (decision rendered by the Interstate Commerce Commission)

“Work Begun on the Brooklyn Memorial,” pp. 283. (the granite foundation for bronze memorial that represents the American soldier, wounded, erected in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York )

“Granite Markers for Our Soldier Dead,” pp. 283. (National cemetery headstones)

“International Association News,” by Walter W. Drayer, President, pp. 284-285.

“Will Electrify a Stone Plant,” pp. 285. (the plant of the Nast Brothers’ Lime & Stone Company, of Marblehead, near fond-du-Lac, Wisconsin .)

“State Gives Sand and Gravel Leases,” pp. 285.

“Practical Stone-Cutting and Drafting: Cylindrical Vaulting and Domes - Part III, by Ed. W. Hind, pp. 286-287.

“Vandals Overturn Monuments,” pp. 289. (in two stone yards in Newark, New Jersey )

(Engraving) “An Example of French Carved Stonework. Capital in the triforium of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Montmartre, Paris .”

“New Material Handling Equipment,” pp. 290. (the Atlas Sand, Gravel & Stone Company of Unionville, Connecticut )

Stone Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 7, July, 1920.

“Gain in Stone Production,” pp. 229-230.

“Marble Cheaper Than Pine,” pp. 330.

“Durability and Honesty in Church Building,” pp. 331-332.

(Photo caption) “Representative Methodist Episcopal Church South, Washington. Architects: Messrs. Sanguinet & Staats, Fort Worth, Tex. Cut and erected in Cherokee Georgia Marble”

(Photo caption) “Screen, Library Hall, University of Chicago . Architects: Messrs. Coolidge & Hodgdon, Chicago. Cut and erected entirely of Indiana Limestone”

“Prices Here and Elsewhere,” pp. 333-334.

“Canadian Bank in Native Stone,” pp. 334. (Head office for British Columbia of the Union Bank at Vancouver .)

Ohio Limestone for Use on Soils,” pp. 334.

“International Association News,” by Walter W. Drayer, President, pp. 335-336.

“Practical Stone-Cutting and Drafting: Cylindrical Vaulting and Domes,” Part IV, by Ed. W. Hind, pp. 338-339 (to be continued).

(Engraving) “Main Entrance, Santa Maria Del Mar, Barcelona . An interesting example of early Spanish Gothic architecture and stonework.” pp. 341.

Stone Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 8, August, 1920.

“Tractors in the Italian Quarries,” 379-380.

“Quarantine on Stone and Quarry Products,” pp. 380.

Arlington Memorial Amphitheatre,” pp. 380-381

(Photo caption) “Arlington Memorial Amphitheatre at Washington”

“Building a Big Lime Plant,” pp. 381-383. (by Rockland & Rockport lime Company, Rockland, Maine.

(Photo caption) “One of the Greatest Marble Plants in the World - Yards and Mills of the Georgia Marble Co., at Tate, GA )

“A Big Canadian Quarry Plant,” pp. 382. ( Winchester sub-division, about 16 miles east of Smith’s Falls, Ontario, for the Canadian Pacific Railway) (Canada)

“Building in New York Cities,” pp. 382-383.

“To Develop Granite Quarries in Idaho,” pp. 383. (in the vicinity of Lewiston, Idaho )

“Improvement in the Slate Industry,” pp. 383-384.

“Stone for the New York Court House,” pp. 384.

“A Classic Memorial for Buffalo,” pp. 384. (memorial to the soldiers of the 20th Ward in Buffalo, New York, for World War I)

“Stone Shipments on the Great Lakes,” pp. 384.

“New Building with Granite Base,” pp. 384. (building for the Herring Brothers, woolen merchants, on the north west corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-first street, New York)

“Nebraska’s New State Capitol,” pp. 385-386.

“Tunneling for Granite in Rhode Island,” pp. 386.

“Increased Cost of Road Repairing,” pp. 386-387. (Cuyahoga County, Ohio)

“Asphyxiated by Crushed Stone,” pp. 387. (John Young died at the plant of the Connecticut Trap Rock Company’s quarries at Mount Carmel.)

“Monument Men to Meet in St. Louis,” pp. 387. (the National Retail Monument Dealers’ Association)

“Refuses Bid for Bankrupt Quarry,” pp. 387. (Racine Stone & Quarry Company of Racine, Wisconsin, to D. Floyd Clinch, of Chicago, Illinois)

“International Association News,” by Walter W. Drayer, President, pp. 388-389.

“Practical Stone-Cutting and Drafting: Cylindrical Vaulting and Domes,” Part V, by Ed. W. Hind, pp. 390-392.

Stone Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 9, September, 1920.

“The Housing Shortage,” pp. 433-434.

“Granite Blocks The Only Permanent Pavement,” pp. 434.

“Government Test of Marble,” pp. 434.

“Restoring Old Tombstones in New York,” pp. 434.

Stone Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 12, December, 1920.

“The Marbles of Alaska,” pp. 589-590.

“A Big Housing Development,” pp. 590

“Interior Marble for Homes,” pp. 590-591.

“Stone Workers in Palestine,” pp. 591.

(Photo caption) “A Group of Stone workers in Jerusalem”

“Stone Roads Last Two Thousand Years,” pp. 591.

“Slate Mining in Maine,” pp. 592-594.

(Photo caption) “Carved Fountain of Indiana Limestone. For the approaches to the Centennial Building at Springfield, Ill. Architects: Schmidt, Garden & Martin, Chicago.” (Illinois)

“Vermont Quarry Owners are Hopeful,” pp. 594.

“Highway Materials Companies Organize,” pp. 594.

“A Stone Man’s Advancement,” pp. 594. (George B. Christian, Jr.)

“Great Grant Statue and Its Granite Base,” pp. 594-595.

“Car Shortage Limits Stone Supply,” pp. 595.

(Photo caption) “Bas Relief From the Arch of Severus, Rome. The monument is of marble and was erected by the Emperor Septimius Severus in the year A.D. 203.”

(Photo caption) “Carving From the Arch of Serverus, Rome. The two bas reliefs are cut in marble and on the side of the monument facing the Capitol.”

“The New Bank at Wichita, Kans.,” pp. 595. (First National Bank of Wichita, Kansas)

“Marble Dust and Sawdust,” pp. 595.

“The Building of the Pyramids,” pp. 597.

“Marble Headstones for Our Soldier Dead,” pp. 597.

“Stamford’s Marble Memorial,” pp. 597. (Stamford, Connecticut)

“Reopening an Old Slate Quarry,” pp. 597. (the Newton slate quarry near Newton, New Jersey)

“A Big Quarry Stick,” pp. 597. (at the Progressive Slate Company’s quarry at Granville, New York)

“International Association News,” by Walter W. Drayer, President. (pp. 598-599)

“Will Quarry Limestone in the Philippines,” pp. 599. (located on Island of Leyte)

“Practical Stone-Cutting and Drafting: Cylindrical Vaulting and Domes,” Part IX, by Ed. W. Hind, pp. 600-601.

 

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