44 Report on Building Stone of New York. 



The Gouverneur marble was employed at least fifty years ago for 

 grave-stones, and in the Riverside cemetery, at Gouverneur, these old 

 grave-stones, bearing dates from 1818 onward, can now be seen. As 

 compared with the more recently introduced Vermont, white marble 

 head-stones it is more durable ; and there is not so luxuriant a growth 

 of moss and lichen as on the Vermont stone, but in the case of 

 the older Gouverneur stone some signs of decay and disintegration, 

 particularly on the tops, are noticeable, and small pieces can be 

 chipped off with the knife blade. The durability of the stone for 

 building purposes has been tested in some of the older structures in 

 Gouverneur. Of course, it must be remembered that in them inferior 

 and surface stone was used. 



Gouverneur marble may be seen in a number of business blocks in 

 the village of Gouverneur ; in the Presbyterian church at Canton ; in 

 the Flower Memorial church at Watertown ; in the county clerk's 

 office, Albion ; in three church buildings at Carthage ; in the Mer- 

 rick block, Syracuse ; and in the Belden houses, Bryant avenue, 

 Chicago. 



Canton. — A gray- white marble quarry is opened in this town, four 

 miles easterly from Canton village. The stone is said to resemble 

 that of the Gouverneur quarries. The place has not been worked 

 lately. 



Verd-Antique Marble. 



Thurman. — A verd-antique marble is found in the town of Thur- 

 nian in Warren county. The locality is eight miles north-west of Thur- 

 man station and five miles from Glendale, on the Adirondack railroad. 

 The place was worked by a Saratoga company (the Verd-Antique 

 Marble Co.) for three years, when it was abandoned. Some stone 

 was cut and dressed at the quarry and put on the market, but it was 

 seamy, and the quarry was not deep enough to test thoroughly the 

 formation. The stone is yellowish-green (as represented by Museum 

 block) and not the rich, deep shade characteristic of the precious 

 serpentine. 



Bolton. — Serpentine occurs in this town also, but it is not 

 quarried. 



Port Henry. — A beautiful, variegated, verd-antique marble has 

 been opened near Port Henry, Essex county, but has not been devel- 

 oped. It occurs associated with the white, crystalline limestone. 

 Fine specimen blocks are in the State Museum collection. 



