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had in these newer stnietures. 1 he ( lalehiw hrid^c (juar- 

 ries. north ol Corsehill, \ieKl a sandstone which is hrownish- 

 rcd in c()h)r. coarser-brained and more siliceous, and a[)i)ar- 

 ently more diirahh' than tlie hitter stone. lioth (hstricts 

 are represented in the lh'csb\'Lerian hospital huildin^s, on 

 East Seventieth street. The Ciatelaw hrith^e stone- is to he 

 seen in the Ijank huildin;^ on the corner of lM)rt\'-second 

 Street, at Pdlth a\enue ; also, in St. George's church, East 

 Sixteenth street. 



Althougli sandstones have been so largel}' em[)loyed in 

 all kinds of building", in New \'ork. \-et the greater part has 

 come from ([uarries and (|uarr\' districts outside of the state. 

 1 he latter have found better markets in the smaller cities 

 near them than in the nietropolis. Sandstones from distant 

 parts ot the countr)', and trom other states, have been car- 

 ried through the quarr\' belts of western and central New 

 York, and have, to some extent, excluded the {productions 

 of our state. The commercial relations and varied tastes 

 of the people, as well as the tide of fashion in stone, have 

 produced this effect. It is not due to the superior charac- 

 ter and \alue of foreign and extra-limltal sandstone. In 

 consequence of this relative!)' small demand for state sand- 

 stones, there are few prominent buildings to which refer- 

 ence can be made. Ihe Potsdam sandstone is in the new 

 Columbia college buildings ; the Albion sandstone appears 

 in the "Guernsey," Nos. 160-164 Broadwa\', and in the 

 house, north-west corner of Madison a\-enue and Sixt\'- 

 eighth street; Medina sandstone (gray variet\') in the Cal- 

 vary Baptist church. West Fifty-seventh street; Portage 

 and Oxford sandstones in Aldrich court. Xo. 45 Broadwax- ; 

 Warsaw blue sandstone in the building Sixth avenue and 

 West Thirty-fourth street ; and Hudson ri\-er blue-stone in 

 the Tiffan\' house, Madison a\'enuc and Sevent}"-second 

 street. All of these references are to comparatively new^ 

 buildings, and the\' do not afford any positive evidence of 

 the enduring value of these sandstones in New \'ork. 

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