Author: Kate FerrucciPublisher: Quarry Books - IPS
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A celebration of Indiana's limestone workers in words and pictures.
Limestone Lives
Author: Kate FerrucciPublisher: Quarry Books - IPS
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A celebration of Indiana's limestone workers in words and pictures.
In Limestone Country
Author: Scott Russell SandersPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807063354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"A thoughtful and fine local geography. Scott Sanders, judging little and settling forth much, gives us texture and depth in southern Indiana, a place that's dressed a phenomenal number of the nation's enduring buildings." -Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams and Of Wolves and Men
Stories in Stone
Author: David B. WilliamsPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295746475
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics. In Stories in Stone, he takes you on explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like swirled pink-and-black taffy, a gas station made of petrified wood, and a Florida fort that has withstood three hundred years of attacks and hurricanes, despite being made of a stone that has the consistency of a granola bar. Williams also weaves in the cultural history of stone, explaining why a white fossil-rich limestone from Indiana became the only building stone used in all fifty states; how in 1825, the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument led to America’s first commercial railroad; and why when the same kind of marble used by Michelangelo clad a Chicago skyscraper it warped so much after nineteen years that all 44,000 panels of it had to be replaced. This love letter to building stone brings to life the geology you can see in the structures of every city.
Building Stones of Our Nation's Capital
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building stones
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
New Country Life
Author: Pencil Points
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Category : Architectural drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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