Structures and Monuments in Which Missouri Stone was Used

• Finished Products from Missouri Stone in New York (Continued)
  • New York City – the Dr. Ronald E. McNair Monument in Ronald McNair Park, Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue, Brooklyn (photograph) (The following information is taken from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs web site.)

    The Dr. Ronald E. McNair Monument was created by sculptor Ogundipe Fayomi. The monument is made of up two bronze plaques and a “life-sized bust mounted on a pyramidal monument of polished Missouri red granite....”

  • New York, New York - the Needle Trades School (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.)

    Indorado or Inkley Vein Marble quarried from the Inkley Marble Quarries Company quarry located southwest of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, was used in the construction of the Needle Trades School building.

  • New York City, New York - the New York Athletic Club 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 in Newton County, Missouri, operated by the Joplin Marble Quarries Company was used in the construction of the interior of the New York Athletic Club 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 - the New York City Hall - the Base (photographs and history) (The following information is from the NYCArchitecture.com web site.)

    According to this web site, the base of the New York City Hall building was constructed of Missouri granite. About 1954-1956, the “...original deteriorated Massachusetts marble facade, with brownstone on the rear, was completely reclad with Alabama limestone

  • New York City, New York - the New York Stock Exchange Building (from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, June 1923, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 47.)

    General View Napoleon Gray Quarry. Napoleon Gray in New Stock Exchange Building, New York City. Stripping Land for Greater Production.

    Phenix Marble Co., Kansas City, Missouri

    Napoleon Gray Marble

    To take care of the tremendous demand for Napoleon Gray Marble we have just built a new central power plant and installed additional quarry and sawing machinery. We will be glad, at any time, to furnish you with estimates or complete information about the most reliable gray marble in the market.

    (The photograph and text regarding the interior of the Stock Exchange Building below were published in Throvgh the Ages Magazine, June 1923 in the Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company advertisement. The same advertisement was also published in the May 1923, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 50 issue of Through The Ages Magazine.)

    Napoleon Gray Marble used in New York Stock Exchange Building. Trowbridge & Livingston, Architects. Wm. Bradley & Son, Marble Contractor. Photo by permission of N.Y. Stock Exchange Bldg., Co.

    • New York City, New York - the New York Stock Exchange Building - the Trading Room Walls (from article entitled, “Banks - And Marble,” by Alfred C. Bossom, in Throvgh The Ages Magazine, September 1926, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 31-37.)

      The trading room of the New York Stock Exchange, New York City, has walls of Napoleon Gray. Trowbridge and Livingston, of New York, were the architechs.

    • New York City, New York - the New York Stock Exchange 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 New York Stock Exchange building prior to 1942.

  • New York City, New York - the New York Telephone Company Building on West Street (from article entitled, “The New West Street Building of the New York Telephone Company,” in Throvgh The Ages Magazine, September 1926, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 25-30.)

    The New York Telephone Company building. (pp. 25)

    “Altogether there are 122,065 square feet of six varieties of marble used in the new interior of the telephone buildings, the average thickness of the marble used being 1 ½ inches. The different varieties are used in the following quantities:

    Botticino, 67,000 square feet.

    Travertine, 23, 400 square feet.

    Napoleon gray, 21,000 square feet.

    Levanto, 5,425 square feet.

    Kato, 2,640 square feet.

    Tennessee Pink, 2,600 square feet.

    “This does not include the stone on the outer walls of the building, of which there was 40,000 cubic feet used; the granite bases and facings on the ground floor, of which 5,500 cubic feet were used; nor the 16,600 cubic feet of cast stone.”

  • New York City, New York - the Pennsylvania Building Hallway (from article entitled, “A Worthy Addition To The Buildings of New York,” in Throvgh The Ages Magazine, May 1926, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 13-19.)

    Typical marble treatment of upper corridors in the Pennsylvania Building, New York. Schwartz and Gross, architects. (pp. 16)

  • New York, New York - the Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation Building, East Avenue (from article entitled, “Marble in Rochester Buildings,” by Vera B. Wilson, Publicity Director, Convention & Publicity Bureau, Rochester Chamber of Commerce, in Throvgh The Ages Magazine, August 1926, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 8-16.)

    Elevator corridor, Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation. Travertine, Levanto and St. Genevieve marbles are seen. (pp. 9)

    “The East Avenue entrance opens into a marble-lined vestibule which in turn opens into the elevator corridor, flanking the building on the south side. The floor is Travertine with awide border and base of Levanto marble. St. Genevieve marble has been used with good effect on the side walls up to the beginning of the barrel vault ceiling....”

    “From the elevator corridor opens a large showroom which covers, in reality, the entire ground floor. Ten 4-foot square columsn of St. Genevieve marble placed in two rows of five columsn each divide the room convenitly....”

    “St. Genevieve marble has been used for the Grand Staircase situated in the center of the showroom and leading to the basement housing the Home Service Demonstration department. The side walls are all of this particular variety of marble.”

  • New York City, New York - the Rockefeller Center - Office Building No. 10 (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 Office Building No. 10 of the Rockefeller Center.

  • New York City, New York - the Saks Building on Fifth Avenue (from Stone Magazine, October 1924, Vol. XLV, No. 10, pp. 600)

    Marble and Limestone in New Fifth Avenue Department Store Building

    “In its further encroachment of Fifth Avenue, business, that is fast taking over this one-time thoroughfare of homes and fashion, has not sought to mar the reputation of the famous avenue with cheaply constructed buildings, but rather to replace the brown stone fronts of the stately old residences with new and modern buildings, many of them of skyscraper proportions and virtually all of stone exterior and decorated with granite and marble and stone. The newest of big commercial buildings to be erected on Fifth Avenue is that designed especially for department store uses and but recently occupied by Saks & Company. Indiana Limestone from the quarries of the Indiana Quarries Company and St. Genieve (sic) Golden Vein marble from Missouri were selected for the exterior of the three lower floors of the building, the former also being used for trim throughout the exterior of the structure, that occupies the block between forty-ninth and Fiftieth Streets on the east side of the avenue. The main entrance, as seen in the accompanying engraving, is of carved St. Genieve (sic) Golden Vein marble furnished by Tompkins-Kiel Marble Company, as are the panels between the main show windows. The lintel above the door is a single block of this marble. The other illustration shows the fluted Indiana Limestone engaged pilasters and balusters and the carved work above. This store building, one of the most modern in America, was designed by Starrett & Van Vleck, architects. William Bradley & Son were the cut stone and marble contractors.”

    Section of New Saks Building, Fifth Avenue, New York City, showing detail of stone work, marble entrance and panels. Starrett & Van Vleck, architects.

    Main Entrance, New Saks Building, of St. Genieve (sic) Golden Vein Marble, Lintel being of a Single Block. Starrett & Van Vleck, architects.

  • New York City, New York - the Seamen’s Bank for Savings - Exterior Stone Panel (from Stone Magazine, May 1926, Vol. XLVII, No. 5, pp. 292)

    One of the Exterior Panels Executed in Napoleon Gray Marble for the New Seaman’s Bank for Savings, Pearl & William Streets, New York City. Carving Done by William Bradley & Son. Architect: Benjamin W. Morris.

    • New York City, New York - the Seamen’s Bank for Savings, on Wall Street (Throvgh The Ages Magazine, March 1927, Vol. 4, No. 11, pp. 2.

      Carved marble doorway to the Seamen’s Bank for Savings, Wall Street, New York. The architect was Benjamin W. Morris; the material is Napoleon Gray.(pp. 2)

    • New York City, New York - Seamen’s Bank For Savings - Entrance (Tompkins-Kiel Marble Co. Advertisement from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, October 1927, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 49.)

      Detail, Seamen’s Bank Entrance. Carved Napoleon Gray Entrance, Seamen’s Bank for Savings, Wall St., New York City. Architect, B. W. Morris, Marble Contractor, Wm. Bradley & Son.

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

      Chicago - San Francisco - Sylacauga, Ala. - Knoxville, Tenn. - St. Louis, MO.

      Napoleon Gray Marble. Harmonizing with the granite of the structure, the durability and ease of carving of Napoleon Gray Marble are but two of the features that made it the choice for the enrichment of this beautiful bank. There is no substitute for marble.

  • New York City, New York - the Standard Oil Company 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 Standard Oil Company building prior to 1942.

  • New York City, New York - the Surrey Apartments - Interior (Tompkins-Kiel Marble Co. advertisement from Throvgh The Ages Magazine, dated April 1927, Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 62.)

    The Surrey Apartments, 20 East 76th Street. Schwartz & Gross, Architects. East New York Marble Co., Contractors.

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

    Chicago - San Francisco - Sylacauga, Ala. - Knoxville, Tenn. - St. Louis, Mo.

    St. Genevieve Golden Vein - Red Levanto

    As a foil to the field of the golden glory of wide areas of St. Genevieve Golden Vein marble walls, Schwartz and Gross have used our Red Levanto marble for base and trim. Beautiful as is this combination it is but one of many such possible with the vast selection we have for your choice.

  • New York City, New York - the Triborough Bridge Administration 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.)

    Ozark Fleuri Marble (a limestone) quarried at Carthage, Missouri, was used in the construction in the interior of the Administration building of the Triborough Bridge.

  • New York City, New York - the U. S. Federal Courts 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.)

    Ozark Veined Marble (a limestone) quarried at Carthage, Missouri, was used in the construction in the interior of the U. S. Federal Courts building.

  • Rochester, New York - the Post Office 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.)

    Ste. Genevieve Rose Marble and Golden Vein Marble, quarried in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, were used in the construction of the Post Office building.

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