Structures and Monuments in Which Missouri Stone was Used

• Finished Products from Missouri Stone in New York
  • Brooklyn, New York – the Brooklyn Trust Company Building Doorway (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, October 1923, Vol. 1, No. 6, “Doorways in Marble: The Detail that Strikes the Keynote of Character in any Structure,” pp. 22.)

    This doorway in the Brooklyn Trust Company Building is of Napoleon Gray marble. The architects were York and Sawyer.

  • Brooklyn, New York – Brooklyn Union Gas Company Office Building – Excerpts from “Some American Marbles,” in Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, March 1916, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, pp. 143-145. (This magazine is available in Google Book Search – Full View Books.)

    “The marble quarried at Phenix, Mo., is also generally similar to the Carthage stone, but its wavy suture lines give it a closer resemblance to the gray Tennessee marble. It is composed largely of shell fragments that have completely recrystallized and thus produced the texture of marble. It is known under the trade name of ‘Napoleon Gray marble.’ It has already been used in many cities of the Central States and has been shipped as far east as New York.”

    (Photo caption) “Office of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company. Finished in Napoleon Gray Marble from the quarries of the Phenix Marble Company, Kansas City, Mo. Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company, New York, sole sales agents.”

  • Brooklyn, New York - the Homestead Bank - Interior (from the article entitled, “Planning Bank Interiors: The Reaction of the Public to Beauty Must Be Considered by Both Banker and Architect,” in Throvgh The Ages Magazine, October 1925, Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 3-10.)

    Holmes and Winslow, the architects of the Homestead Bank, Brooklyn, New York, used Napoleon Gray marble exclusively for this quiet treatment. (pp. 7)

  • Buffalo, New York - the Walbridge Building (from“New Missouri Marble Mill,”in Stone Magazine, November 1925, Vol. XLVI, No. 11, pp. 674-676)

    Colonial Grey Marble quarried by F. W. Steadley & Co., Inc., of Carthage, Missouri, was used in the construction of the Walbridge building prior to 1926.

  • Buffalo, New York - the Liberty Bank of Buffalo (from the article entitled, “Symphonies of Stone in The New Home of the Liberty Bank of Buffalo,” in Throvgh The Ages Magazine, February 1926, Vol. 3, No. 10, pp. 10-15.)

    “All the corridors in the office part of the structure are lined to the ceiling with Carthage Stone. It gives a sense of solidity and adds to the charm of the long vistas.”

  • New York City, New York - the American Museum - the South Wing (from Missouri Marble, by Norman S. Hinchey, Report of Investigations No. 3, Missouri Geological Survey and Water Resources, Rolla, Missouri, 1946. Used with permission of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.)

    Ste. Genevieve Golden Vein Marble, quarried in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, was used in the construction of the South Wing of the American Museum building.

  • New York City, New York - the American Radiator Building Interior (from “Black and Gold: American Radiator Company’s Building in New York, Presents an Unique Color Scheme,” in Throvgh The Ages Magazine, July 1924, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 14-16.)

    “The inside vestibule is built up with glass, and ornamental bronze screens hide massive steam radiators. Heavy glass and bronze doors lead directly into the elevator lobby and main corridors. These are paneled from floor to ceiling with South American Monte Aurate marble of black and gold veins. The floor of the lobby is of Napoleon Gray marble with a border of medallions of Belgian black....” (pp. 14)

    • New York City, New York - the American Radiator Building (from Missouri Marble, by Norman S. Hinchey, Report of Investigations No. 3, Missouri Geological Survey and Water Resources, Rolla, Missouri, 1946. Used with permission of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.)

      Marble quarried from the Phenix Marble Company’s “Old West Quarry” at Phenix, Greene County, Missouri, was used in the construction of the American Radiator building prior to 1942.

  • New York City, New York - the American Telephone and Telegraph Building (from Missouri Marble, by Norman S. Hinchey, Report of Investigations No. 3, Missouri Geological Survey and Water Resources, Rolla, Missouri, 1946. Used with permission of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.)

    Marble quarried from the Phenix Marble Company’s “Old West Quarry” at Phenix, Greene County, Missouri, was used in the construction of the American Telephone and Telegraph building prior to 1942.

  • New York City, New York - the Bank of America Building - Column Base & Panel (from Stone Magazine, February 1926, Vol. XLVII, No. 2, pp. 108)

    Column Base and Panel of Napoleon Gray Marble in New Bank of America Building, 44 Wall Street, New York. Floor of Belgian Black and Madre Cream Alabama Marbles. Furnished by Tompkins Kiel Marble Co. Marble Contractors: McGrathy & Sons. Architects: Trowbridge & Livingston.

    • New York City, New York - the Bank of America Building, located on the corner of Wall and William Streets (from article entitled, “A Financial Centenarian: The Bank of America Has Occupied the Same Site For About a Hundred Years,” in Throvgh The Ages Magazine, February 1927, Vol. 4, No. 10, pp. 13-15.)

      The Bank of America, in New York City. Belgian Black and Alabama Cream marbles were used in the floor; Napoleon Gray was employed for the columns, wainscoting and bank screen. Trowbridge and Livingston, architects. (pp. 14)

      “The interior no less than the exterior is a monument to successful banking...The fluted Doric columns, pilasters, wainscoting, rails and bank screen are of Napoleon Gray marble....”

      “The walls in the corridors of the building are of Napoleon Gray while the floor of the public elevator hall is laid with alternating squares of Belgian Black and Alabama Cream with a border of the latter.”

      “The architects for the Bank of America building were Trowbridge and Livingston, of New York.”

    • New York City, New York - the Bank of America Building (from Missouri Marble, by Norman S. Hinchey, Report of Investigations No. 3, Missouri Geological Survey and Water Resources, Rolla, Missouri, 1946. Used with permission of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.)

      Marble quarried from the Phenix Marble Company’s “Old West Quarry” at Phenix, Greene County, Missouri, was used in the construction of the Bank of America building prior to 1942.

  • New York City, New York - the Bank of Manhattan Building, No. 40 Wall Street (from Missouri Marble, by Norman S. Hinchey, Report of Investigations No. 3, Missouri Geological Survey and Water Resources, Rolla, Missouri, 1946. Used with permission of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.)

    Ozark Veined Marble (a limestone) quarried at Carthage, Missouri, was used in the construction in the interior of the Bank of Manhattan building.

  • New York City, New York - the Bank of New York Building (from Missouri Marble, by Norman S. Hinchey, Report of Investigations No. 3, Missouri Geological Survey and Water Resources, Rolla, Missouri, 1946. Used with permission of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.)

    “Marble quarried from the Shoal Creek Quarry of the Joplin Marble Quarries Company was used in the construction of the interior of the Bank of New York building. The color of the stone was described as ‘medium dark gray color, stylolitic, coarsely crinoidal to rather fine-grained, with appreciable variations in texture.’”

  • New York City, New York - the BAR Building the Interior, West 43d and 44th Streets, New York City (Advertisement) (The following information is from an advertisement in Stone: An Illustrated Magazine, Vol. XLVI, No. 3, March, 1925, Stone Publishing Co., New York, pp. 143.)

    BAR Building, West 43d and 44th Streets, New York City. Exterior. Napoleon Gray Marble used on 77 panels between floors Interior. Interior: Walls and toilets all built of Napoleon Gray Marble. Severance & Van Alen, Architects.

    Phenix Marble Company, 609 Scarrit Building, Kansas City, Missouri

    Producers of Napoleon Gray Marble - Phenix Cut Stone - A sound material of superior texture and color for exterior and interior use.

    Interior – Blocks, Sawn Stone and Floor Material Only.

  • New York City, New York - the Bowery Savings Bank Building - the Main Floor Elevator Hall (from Stone Magazine, August 1923, Vol. XLIV, No. 8, pp. 452)

    Main Floor Elevator Hall, Bowery Savings Bank Building. Walls and Carved Gargoyles in St. Genevieve Golden Veined Marble, furnished by Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company. York & Sawyer, architects.

    • New York City, New York - the Bowery Savings Bank Building - Marble Grill (Tompkins-Kiel Marble Co. advertisement from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, November 1923, Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 50.)

      Pierced Napoleon Gray Marble grille for fresh-air intake in New Bowery Savings Bank, New York City. York & Sawyer, Architects. Marble manufactured by Wm. Bradley & Son.

      Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York

      Chicago - Sylacauga, Ala. - San Francisco - Knoxville, Tenn.

      Napoleon Gray Is An All-Purpose Marble

      For those works of extraordinary architectural merit, where beauty and tone count for much, for floors where economy and safety are important, even for exteriors where weather conditions are severe, Napoleon Gray Marble is used. It is truly an all-purpose marble. To those of you who are not already familiar with it and its uses, we have samples and information of interest. It is but one of the more than 150 different marbles and stones that we handle in rough and quarried blocks, and sawn slabs ready for immediate shipment.

    • New York City, New York - the Bowery Savings Bank Building (from Stone Magazine, February 1924, Vol. XLV, No. 2, pp. 159)

      “...The Ste. Genevieve marble has been used in the Leidner Chapel in St. Louis, Mo., the new Bowery Savings Bank in New York City, and in other structures of recent construction.”

    • New York City, New York - the Bowery Savings Bank Building - the Fresh-air Intake Grilles in the Main Banking Room (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, February 1924, Vol. 1, No. 10, pp. 67.)

      Napoleon Gray in The Bowery Savings Bank: One of the many elaborately carved and pierced Napoleon Gray Fresh-air intake grilles in the main banking room. Wm. Bradley and Son, Marble Mfrs.

      Phenix Marble Company, Kansas City, Missouri

      In the whole realm of modern stereotomy there are few examples of work more worthy of careful study than the new Bowery Savings Bank on 42nd Street, New York City. Here, York and Sawyer, who designed it, have drawn on ancient precept and so skillfully rendered it in modern materials, that it can safely be termed a masterpiece in marble and stone. Napoleon Gray Marble was chosen for one of the most unusual of the many unusual features of this building - the pierced marble grilles in the main banking room.

  • New York City, New York - the Bowery Savings Bank - Doorway (from Stone Magazine, April 1924, Vol. XLV, No. 4, pp. 226)

    Doorway in new Bowery Savings Bank Building, New York City, of St. Genevieve Golden Vein Marble, furnished by Tompkins-Keil (sic) Marble Company. Architects: York & Sawyer.

  • New York, New York - the Bowery Savings Bank - the Radiators (from “The Bowery Savings Bank: A New York Institution that Will Soon Celebrate Its One Hundredth Anniversary,” in Throvgh The Ages Magazine, September 1924, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 25-26.)

    Interior of the Bowery Savings Bank. Architect, York and Sawyer, N.Y., pp. 26

    “Inserted in each of these wall mosaics, and above each of the stone arches in the main body of the wall, are twenty perforated marble radiators, through which the air, tempered and filtered by the latest processes of purification, is admitted to the room. These are of Napoleon marble from quarries in Phoenix, Missouri.”

  • New York City, New York - the Bowery Savings Bank - Pierced Grille (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, April 1926, Vol. 3, No. 12, pp. 12.)

    Pierced grille, cut from Napoleon Gray marble, in the Bowery Savings Bank, New York City.

  • New York City, New York – The Bowery Savings Bank – “Bowery Savings:  A World in a Bank,” by Susan DeMark, on her Mindful Walker web site.

    (excerpt from the article)  “Tinos green marble is a vivid green-blue with wide white veins, mined from the quarries of a small mountainous Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Briar Hill sandstone is an earthy stone of warm red, rust, brown, and buff-colored tones taken from quarries in Glenmont, Ohio. Missouri is the source of Napoleon gray marble, while Rouge Royal is a stone from Belgium of reddish-pink hues with gray and white veins.”

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