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in greater part as sills, caps, steps, and in trimming brick 

 buildings of all kinds. Connecticut brownstone is seen in 

 many of the fronts, and in the trimmings of brick buildings, 

 but it is not now so generally used as it was formerly. The 

 East Longmeadow sandstones have apparently taken its 

 place, and they are now in demand, both for fronts and for 

 all stone structures. Limestone has not been employed to 

 the same extent here as in the cities of the central and 

 western parts of the state. And the Indiana oolitic stone 

 has not yet come into general notice as a building material. 

 A census of the stone fronts and all-stone buildings, 

 taken for this report, gives the following statistics : 



All-stone buildings 20 



Stone fronts 174 



As several of these all-stone buildings are very large, the 

 amount of stone in them' is equivalent to a much greater 

 number of average city structures. The capitol alone is 

 equal to many ordinary average city buildings. 



The examples of stone construction to which reference is 

 here made are classified by kinds of stone. And, first : 

 granites are noted in the capitol, the United States Gov- 

 ernment building, the city hall, Stanwix Hall hotel, Albany 

 Savings bank and Albany City bank. The first story of 

 the capitol is a gray granite from Yarmouth, Maine. Some 

 of the stones show brown spots on the surface, due to oxida- 

 tion of the iron. There is also a noticeable efiiorescence 

 on some parts of the surface, owing apparently to the ac- 

 tion of the water on the mortar. The beautiful gray and fine- 

 crystalline granite of the upper stories, is from Hallowell, 

 Maine. It shows no sign of deterioration by weathering. 

 All of the granite in the capitol is cut and dressed blocks. 

 The new city hall and county building, on Eagle street and 

 diagonally across the park from the capitol, is one of the late 

 Mr. Richardson's architectural monuments, in granite, from 

 Milford, Massachusetts, trimmed with East Longmeadow 



