ON rnr. rsic or stonk in ciuks 299 



dress'jd. tlu;\- arc cuLi[>Lcil lo car\'cil work, aiul ihc [^IcasiiiL^ 

 contrast of tlu.' tooled siirfac-<'s with the rt-cl or brown rock- 

 face, suL;L;esls this coinMnallon, particukirly in massive walks 

 and fronts. i*\)r Li-iinininL;s with L;ray and reddish-j^ray 

 <:^ranites. as the Milford, Massat-luis('tts. L^ranitc, these sand- 

 stones ha\'e been used extensi\'el\'. The softness of some 

 ol these Loni^meadow stones makes tlu-ir working less ex- 

 pensive, and thus. iiulircctK'. creates a demand for them 

 where harder and more durable stone, whose workin:^' is at- 

 tended with more labor and cost, cannot compete. Refer- 

 ence has been made on pa^es 280-290, to sonie of the ku'L^'e 

 office l)uildinL;s. down-town, in which the Lon^incadow 

 stone can be seen, anel other structures are in the list fur- 

 ther on in this section. In the up[)er part of the cit\' the 

 church of the Holy lrinit\', Lenox a\'enue and One Hun- 

 dred and Twenty-second street, is a hne architectural 

 C-xample of the sandstone and granite ; the Park Presby- 

 terian church, at the corner of bdeventh ax'enue and iLii^'ht}'- 

 sixth street, has it. with the Lake Su[)eriorred sandstone in 

 the trimmings. For [)rivate houses, also, the LonL^nieadow 

 sandstones have come into favor, and the\' appear to be 

 taking" the place of Connecticut brownstone, here, as well 

 as in the construction of the more massive business and 

 public buildings. 



The Longmeadow sandstones also belong, geologically, 

 to the formations of the Triassic aire, as do the Connecticut 

 and the New Jersey brown sandstones, which ha\'e been 

 noticed above. 



Sandstones for building, from New Brunswick and Nova 

 Scotia, have been imported largely, but the importations 

 have fallen off frreath', and the so-called ** No\'a Scotia 

 stone" has ceased to be a leadinir variet\- in this market. 

 They are from the carboniferous formations and are generally 

 liorht-colored. Fheir lanje use has oiven us numerous 

 buildings in all parts of the cit\' wherein they can be seen. 

 That of the New York Historical Society, Second avenue 



