Quarries in Missouri & Quarry Links, Photographs, and Articles
St. Louis – Brambrick thru Brocksmith

• St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri - the Bambrick & Morihan Quarry (Limestone) (from Report on The Building Stones of The United States, and Statistics of the Quarry Industry for 1880, by George W. Hawes, Curator of the Department of Mineralogy and Lithology at the National Museum, and by F. W. Sperr and Thomas C. Kelly, Joint production of the Census Office and the National Museum, 1883)

  The following information was taken from the table entitled, “Table IV. Tables indicating the Amount and Kinds of Rock in the Different States”: The Bambrick & Morihan Quarry, City of St. Louis, Saint Louis County, Limestone/Limestone, color: drab; quarry opened in 1878.

• St. Louis City, Missouri - Bambrick

  (Also See: Fruin, Bambrick & Co.)

• St. Louis City, Missouri - Bambrick-Bates Construction Co. - Second Quarry located between Clinton, Madison, Main & Second streets (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

  Location.

  “Bambrick-Bates Construction Co., Second Quarry (N, 9): -

  “This quarry occupies about one-half the block between Clinton, Madison, Main and Second streets. It was opened in 1886, and produces stone for all common purposes.

  Section.

  “The following columnar section is exposed, in descending series: -

  1. Residuary clay and soil - 3 feet.
  2. Limestone, weathered and decomposing - 9 inches.
  3. Limestone, gray to brownish, fine and coarse grained - 1 inch, 8 inches.
  4. Limestone, gray, coarse grained, in five or six layers - 2 feet, 10 inches.
  5. Limestone, gray, fine grained, cherty - 1 feet, 2 inches.
  6. Limestone, nearly white, very siliceous - 1 foot, 2 feet.
  7. Limestone, dark gray, coarse, sub-crystalline - 1 foot, 4 inches.
  8. Limestone, dark gray, coarse, numerous cavities lined with calcite crystals - 2 feet, 3 inches.
  9. Shale and limestone in thin layers - 7 inches.
  10. Limestone, gray, fine grained - 3 feet, 6 inches.
  11. Shales and limestone in thin layers - 5 inches.
  12. Limestone, gray, vary-grained - 1 foot, 8 inches.
  13. Limestone, gray, fine grained - 1 foot, 8 inches.
  14. Limestone, gray, coarse grained, fossiliferous - 1 foot, 3 inches.
  15. Limestone, gray, coarse grained, fossiliferous, in several layers - 4 foot, 10 inches.
  16. Limestone, lavender, very fine grained, chert concretions, two layers - 1 foot, 8 inches.
  17. Limestone, dark gray, fine grained - 4 inches.
  18. Limestone, brown and lavender, coarse grained, crystalline, in three layers - 2 feet.
  19. Limestone, brownish, coarse grained, three layers - 1 foot.

  Total thickness of rock - 37 feet, 9 inches.”

• St. Louis City, Missouri - William H. Barnett Limestone Quarry located south of Bernard and east of Cardinal avenues (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

  Location and product.

  “Barnett, Wm. H. (J, 12): - Mr. Barnett has a quarry which is situated just south of Bernard and east of Cardinal avenues. It was opened in 1889. The product consists of macadam, paving, dimension stone and riprap. The quarry is about three hundred and twenty-five feet long by three hundred feet wide. The stripping of Loess has been removed and made into bricks. It is soon to be worked on a much larger scale than it is at present.

  Section.

  “The following section, in descending series, was obtained here: -

  1. Limestone, decomposing - 8 feet.
  2. Limestone, gray, uniform grain, contains corals - 3 feet, 1 inch.
  3. Shale, very soft - 6 inches.
  4. Limestone, gray, fine grained, calcite veins - 6 inches.
  5. Limestone, gray, crystalline, varying in texture - 3 feet, 8 inches.
  6. Limestone, gray, in two layers, calcite veins, fossiliferous - 3 feet, 4 inches.
  7. Limestone, gray, varying in texture, concretionary at bottom, upper four or five feet coarse grained and fossiliferous - 6 feet.
  8. Limestone, dark gray, concretionary - 4 ½ feet.
  9. Limestone, light drab, uniform fine texture - 7 inches.
  10. Limestone, light drab, very fine grained, concretionary near top - 1 foot, 4 inches
  11. Limestone, very dark drab, fine grained, calcite veins - 7 inches.
  12. Limestone, dark gray, concretionary - 8 inches.
  13. Limestone, drab, lithographic - ---

  Total thickness of rock - 28 feet, 7 ½ inches.

  “The beds have a slight easterly or north-easterly dip.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Bemmey Limestone Quarry (Limestone) (The following information is from The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, by E. R. Buckley, Director and State Geologist, and H. A. Buehler, Missouri Bureau of Geology and Mines Vol. II, 2nd Series, 1904.)

  “This quarry, which is owned and operated by Wm. Bemmey, is located on the hill north of the Emmerick qurray (sic), described on a following page. It is in the St. Louis limestone and consists of a regular sunken opening 175 feet by 80 feet. The following is a section from top to bottom:

  6-12 ft. - Loess stripping.

  10-15 ft. - Sandy, granular, gray limestone. The stone is cross bedded and at the north end there is about six feet of shelly rock. These beds decrease in thickness to six feet at the east end.

  3 ft. - Dark gray limestone containing dark spots. Bedding planes are irregular and the stone breaks with an uneven fracture.

  2 ft. 6 in. - Limestone similar to the bed above.

  10 in.-12 in. - Limestone and dark colored shale.

  8 in. - Calcareous blue shale.

  1 ft. 4 in. - Fine grained, compact, brittle, dark gray limestone.

  10 ft. 6 in. - Fossiliferous, gray limestone, in layers from two to eight inches in thickness. Is finely crystalline and compact.

  5 ft. 10 in. - Fine grained, fossiliferous, gray limestone, in beds from two to four inches in thickness. Dark colored flint nodules occur throughout the ledge.

  6 ft. 9 in. - Finely crystalline, fossiliferous, dark gray limestone. In layers from two to six inches in thickness. At the west end of the upper-most layer has a sandy texture and is twelve inches thick.

  “This quarry is equipped with a small jaw crusher, a derrick, steam hoist, steam pumps, cars and a movable track. Rubble and crushed stone are the chief products. The quarry was not being worked when visited in the spring of 1902. This stone was used in building the settling tanks at the water works.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - Bonsack & Pearce, Architects (from Stone Magazine, January 1924, Vol. XLV, No. 1, pp. 46)

  Trade Notes: “Bonsack & Pearce, architects, announce the opening of their new office Suite 305-6s Republic Building, St. Louis, Mo.”

• St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri - the Bowdern & Chs. Hogan Quarry (Limestone) (from Report on The Building Stones of The United States, and Statistics of the Quarry Industry for 1880, by George W. Hawes, Curator of the Department of Mineralogy and Lithology at the National Museum, and by F. W. Sperr and Thomas C. Kelly, Joint production of the Census Office and the National Museum, 1883)

  The following information was taken from the table entitled, “Table IV. Tables indicating the Amount and Kinds of Rock in the Different States”: The Hugh Carlin Quarry, City of St. Louis, Saint Louis County, Limestone/Limestone, color: drab; quarry opened in 1864.

• St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri - the John Bowdern & Son Quarry (Limestone) (from Report on The Building Stones of The United States, and Statistics of the Quarry Industry for 1880, by George W. Hawes, Curator of the Department of Mineralogy and Lithology at the National Museum, and by F. W. Sperr and Thomas C. Kelly, Joint production of the Census Office and the National Museum, 1883)

  The following information was taken from the table entitled, “Table IV. Tables indicating the Amount and Kinds of Rock in the Different States”: The John Bowdern & Son Quarry, City of St. Louis, Saint Louis County, Limestone/Limestone, color: drab; quarry opened in 1875.

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Bradbury Marble Company (from Monumental News: Granite, Marble, Stone, Bronze, Sculpture, August 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, pp. 502)

  “F. L. Farley, with the Bradbury Marble Co., St. Louis, Mo., spent some of his vacation visiting the trade in Chicago.”

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Bradbury Marble Company(from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, June 1923, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 55. The same advertisement was published in the following issues of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: May 1923, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 43; and July 1923, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 55.)

    The tallest building in the largest state in the union. The marble is six foot of wainscot in 28 stories and 52 toilet rooms, fabricated and installed in approximately four months, in the Magnolia Petroleum Building, Dallas, Texas. Alfred Bossom, Architect.

    The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Missouri - Edwardsville, Illinois

    (pp. 42. The following information was also published in the following issue of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: May 1923, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 43; September 1923, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 43; October 1923, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 43; November 1923, Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 43; December 1923, Vol. 1, No. 8, pp. 43; February 1924, Vol. 1, No. 10, pp. 43; April 1924, Vol. 1, No. 12, pp. 43; May 1924, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 43; June 1924, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 43 ; July 1924, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 43; August 1924, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 43; September 1924, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 43.)

    The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” I. P. Morton is listed as the company representative.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Bradbury Marble Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, August 1923, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 55.)

    The advertisement that was found on page 55 of this edition was published in the July 1923, Vol. 1, No. 3 edition of Throvgh The Ages Magazine on page 55.

    (pp. 42) The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” I. P. Morton is listed as the company representative.

    • St. Louis, Missouri - the Bradbury Marble Company (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, September 1923, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 55. The advertisement below was also published in the following edition of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: October 1923, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 55; November 1923, Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 55; December 1923, Vol. 1, No. 8, pp. 55; January 1924, Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 55; and February 1924, Vol. 1, No. 10, pp. 59.)

      The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Missouri - Edwardsville, Illinois Stone and Marble altar erected in the St. Joseph’s Convent of Mercy, Webster Groves, Mo. Barnett, Haynes & Barnett, Architects.

      • St. Louis, Missouri - the Bradbury Marble Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, January 1924, Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 43, and July 1925, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 71.)

        The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” I. P. Morton is listed as the company representative.

      • St. Louis, Missouri - the Bradbury Marble Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, April 1924, Vol. 1, No. 12, pp. 61. This advertisement was found in a of many issues of Throvgh The Ages Magazine at the back of the book. )

        Display in Window in Famous & Barr Co.’s Store in St. Louis. All of the marble floors in the store portion of this huge building were installed by us.

        The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Missouri - Edwardsville, Illinois

        Display in Window in Famous & Barr Co.’s Store in St. Louis

        All of the marble floors in the store portion of this huge building were installed by us.

    • St. Louis, Missouri - the Bradbury Marble Company (from Stone Magazine, December 1924, Vol. XLV, No. 12, pp. 728)

      “The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Mo., has just completed a new all steel marble mill and plant on a 5 acre tract at Morganford Road and Missouri Pacific Railroad. This is one of the largest plants in the west devoted exclusively to the fabrication of marble for building purposes.”

    • St. Louis, Missouri - the Bradbury Marble Company (Advertisement) (Through The Ages Magazine, April 1925, Vol. 2, No. 12, pp. 45.)

      Main Entrance Lobby in the Scottish Rite Cathedral, St. Louis, Mo. Throughout this splendid structure large quantities of marble were used - all installed by us.

      The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Missouri

  • St. Louis, Missouri -the Bradbury Marble Company Plant built about 1928 (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, January 1926, Vol. 3, No. 9, pp. 45. The same information was presented in the following issues of Throvgh The Ages Magazine: July 1925, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 46; December 1925, Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 71; and September 1928, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 57.)

    The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis Missouri - Our New Plant

    (pp. 71) The Bradbury Marble Company is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers Represented in the Membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers” section of this issue. I. P. Morton is listed as their representative.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Bradbury Marble Company (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, April 1926, Vol. 3, No. 12, pp. 45.)

    A counter just erected by us in a florist shop, intended to be used as a writing desk. The dark marble is Black and Gold; the white is imported Italian marble.

    The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Missouri

    A counter just erected by us in a florist shop, intended to be used as a writing desk. The dark marble is Black and Gold; the white is imported Italian marble.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Bradbury Marble Company (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, April 1927, Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 48.)

    The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Missouri

    Commercial Office of The Western Union Co., 9th and Chestnut Sts., St. Louis, Mo. The marble throughout this building was installed by us.

    (pp. 67) The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” I. P. Morton is listed as the company representative.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Bradbury Marble Company (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, October 1927, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 44.)

    An Inxpensive (sic) But Attractive Marble Stairway Erected by us in a private residence. Such an installation lends character to the home, and requires practically no maintenance costs - besides being fireproof and non-slip.

    The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Missouri

    An Inxpensive (sic) But Attractive Marble Stairway

    Erected by us in a private residence. Such an installation lends character to the home, and requires practically no maintenance costs - besides being fireproof and non-slip.

    (pp. 65) The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” I. P. Morton is listed as the company representative.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Bradbury Marble Company (Advertisement) (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, September 1928, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 57) (The advertisement for September 1928 in this magazine, was previously published in the Throvgh The Ages Magazine, October 1927, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 44. issue above.)

    The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Missouri

    An inexpensive but attractive marble stairway erected by us in a private residence. Such an installation lends character to the home, and requires practically no maintenance costs - besides being fireproof and non-slip.

  • St. Louis, Missouri - the Bradbury Marble Company (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, January 1932, Vol. 9, No. 9, pp. 50.)

    Miniature of a Banking Room in marble, one of eight models now on display in the Building Industries Exhibit Bureau, St. Louis.

    In a spirit of co-operation for the promotion of Marble this page has been subscribed for by the members of the St. Louis Marble Manufacturers Credit Association who are also members of the National Association of Marble Dealers, and whose names are listed below:

    In keeping with the very desirable policy of this magazine it is our intention to show from time to time installations of marble work by various members.

    (pp. 52)

    Grand National Bank (in the Continental Life Ins. Co. Building in St. Louis) Wm. B. Ittner, Inc., Architects. The floor is Tavernelle tile with Verde Antique dots; the columns, beam facings and counter dies are of Tavernelle Clair, with Vert Antico ledges, bases and floor borders. This marble was installed by The Bradbury Marble Co., St. Louis, Missouri.

    The Bradbury Marble Co., St. Louis, Missouri

    (pp. 67)

    The Bradbury Marble Company, St. Louis, Mo., is listed in the “List of Quarries and Marble Manufacturers represented in the membership of the National Association of Marble Dealers.” I. P. Morton is listed as the company representative.

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Breen Monument Co. (from Granite, Marble & Bronze Magazine, January 1921, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, pp. 33d)

  The following excerpt is from “Motor Truck in the Monument Business: What Retail Monument Dealers Think of the Efficiency of Motor Transportation for Memorial Work.”

  “Breen Monument Co., St. Louis, Mo.: ‘We have a two-ton Traffic truck. It makes better time than teams and can be forced to capacity at all times without that humane feeling that one has about a horse.”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the Breen Monument Co. (Article) (from “Motor Truck in the Monument Business: What Retail Monument Dealers Think of the Efficiency of Motor Transportation for Memorial Work,” in Granite Marble & Bronze Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, January, 1921, pp. 32-33d.)

  “A short time ago Granite Marble & Bronze sent out a questionnaire to the thousands of retail monument dealers throughout the country for information regarding the part the motor truck plays in the retail monument business....”

  “Breen Monument Co., St. Louis, Mo.: ‘We have a two-ton Traffic truck. It makes better time than teams and can be forced to capacity at all times without that humane feeling that one has about a horse.

  “‘We find expenses at all times far above expectations. We use Federal solid tires on the rear wheels and pneumatic front. The solid tires are supposed to carry the load and the pneumatic to take the jar off the motor. When you stop your truck and have a piece of marble or granite on rollers, you know that the truck is going to stand. Many times we have had corners broken off by having the horse move. Then again, when you are not using the truck it needs no attention.’”

• St. Louis, Missouri - the John Brien Quarry (listed in The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, The Mine and Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, Ill., 1897)
• St. Louis City, Missouri - H. Brocksmith Limestone Quarry located northwest of the Missouri Pacific Railway station (Limestone) (from “The Clay, Stone, Lime and Sand Industries of St. Louis City and County,” by G. E. Ladd, Assistant Geologist, in Geological Survey of Missouri, Bulletin No. 3, Supplement, Missouri, December 1890.)

  Location and product.

  “Brocksmith, H. (C. 14): - Mr. Brocksmith has a quarry at Clifton Heights, just north-west of the Missouri Pacific Railway station. It was opened about thirty-five years ago (circa 1860), and has been worked by the present owner for the last eight years. The product consists of paving, macadam, building stone and a little dimension stone, in the quarrying of which two machine drills are used. The quarry is about one hundred feet long by thirty-five feet wide. The stripping of Loess is disposed of by making bricks of it.

  Section.

  “The following section, in descending series, was obtained here: -

  1. Loess, lower two feet gravel - 10-20 feet.
  2. Limestone, decomposing and weathered - 6 feet, 6 inches.
  3. Limestone, gray, soft, in three ten inch layers - 2 feet, 6 inches.
  4. Limestone, gray, fine grained, soft - 8 inches.
  5. Limestone, gray, soft, weathers into two twelve inch layers - 2 feet.
  6. Limestone, light gray, compact, yellowish when weathered, in four to six inch layers - 9 feet.

  “Total thickness of rock - 20 feet, 8 inches.”

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