The Biltmore Estate

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A Guilded-Age Mansion Built from Indiana Limestone At the height of the Gilded Age in 1889, 26-year-old George Washington Vanderbilt II (shown at right), grandson of the railroad and steamship magnate Cornelius “the Commodore” Vanderbilt, began...

Quarrying Frontier Flagstone

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The Frontier Flagstone is quarried in the rolling plains of central Montana, near the town of Harlowton.  All stone quarries differ depending on the type of stone and the nature of the deposit, and the Frontier has some unique characteristics.  We customers visit the...

Quoins

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Quoins are large rectangular stones used as cornerstones in traditional stone buildings.  They provide structural support for buildings, particularly where rubble or fieldstone is used for the rest of the stonework. They also became an important aesthetic element in...

Join the Stone Foundation

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The Stone Foundation is my favorite “stone group” , really the only stone group to which I belong. Starting with a stonemasonry workshop in Santa Fe in 1986, the Stone Foundation has evolved into an eclectic international collection of stone masons, stone carvers, dry...

Select Stone Newsletter – Frontier Cap

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Frontier® Sandstone Sill/Cap One of the advantages of quarrying stone that comes out in natural slabs is that you can make wall cap and windowsill.  The Frontier Sandstone lends itself to making attractive and economical cap and sill   Producing Cap and Sill The...

Montana’s Homestead-Era Stone Buildings

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Scattered across the plains of central Montana are the remnants of countless homestead-era stone buildings built in the late-19th and early-20th centuries by long-forgotten European immigrants. Some are mostly standing while others are little more than the...