This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...bearing enough of the oxides of iron to give the stone its characteristic tints. It is one of the strongest and most durable of all known sandstones. Representatives of this stone may be seen not only in a large number of buildings in Potsdam, N. Y., Fig. 224.--Block of Potsdam sandstone, Potsdam, New York, showing ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...bearing enough of the oxides of iron to give the stone its characteristic tints. It is one of the strongest and most durable of all known sandstones. Representatives of this stone may be seen not only in a large number of buildings in Potsdam, N. Y., Fig. 224.--Block of Potsdam sandstone, Potsdam, New York, showing tooled surface. Photo, by C. H. Richardson. but also in the Florence Flats, Syracuse, N. Y., All Saints Cathedral, Albany, N. Y., and in the Dominion Parliament buildings, Ottawa, Canada. Smock also cites quarries of the Potsdam sandstone at Clayton in Jefferson County, Fort Ann and Whitehall in Washington County, Hammond in St. Lawrence County, Keeseville in Clinton County, Malone in Franklin County, and Port Henry in Essex County. One of the most notable of the recent structures containing Potsdam sandstone is the new Armory at Rochester, N. Y. (See Fig. 224.) Hudson Liiver Group.--The sandstones of the Hudson River Group are of quality inferior to the Potsdam sandstone. The stone at Aqueduct, Schenectady County, is fine grained and gray to blue in color. The fine grained and bluish sandstone of Schenectady may be seen in the Memorial Hall at Union Fig. 22.."--Block of red medina sandstone, Medina, New York, showing character of rift. Photo, by C. H. Richardson. College, Schenectady. This stone has also been quarried at Camden in Oneida County, Highland in Ulster County, New Baltimore in Greene County, Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, Troy in Rensselaer County. Medina Sandstone.--This sandstone received its name from Medina, Orleans County, where the formation is especially well developed and where characteristic fossils appear in the gray beds. The stone varies from fine grained to medium in texture and in color from gray to red and variegat...
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VG+ No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pub by author, distributed by Syracuse University Book Store, 1917, same date TP & CP, presumed 1st Edition. NOT exLib. VG+ or better cond. hardcover, no dj. Burgundy cloth over bds w/ bright gilt lettering on spine. P/O's name inside front cover, o/w book is clean & unmarked throughout. Rear hinge slightly tender but holding very well. Extensively illustrated in b&w. 437pp incl index. Square, straight, tight, bright & clean except as noted, overall VG+ cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
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