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In the interior work of the capitol, the Knoxville, Ten- 

 nessee marble has been used, particularly in the senate 

 chamber and in the court of appeals rooms ; also, in some 

 of the corridors. The panels in the side-walls in the former 

 are of Mexican onyx. The Sienna marble, from Italy, is 

 seen in the arches of the same room and in the fire-place of 

 the court of appeals room. 



On State street and Broadway there are several white 

 marble fronts, notably the old museum building at the 

 corner. 



Of the various limestones, the more prominent construc- 

 tions are : Hawk street viaduct, abutments of gray lime 

 stone from Cobleskill ; Emanuel Baptist church. State 

 street, built in 1869-71, of unhewn, Onondaga gray lime- 

 stone ; Madison Avenue Reformed church (1881) of rock- 

 face blocks, of blue limestone, from Willsborough, Lake 

 Champlain ; basement story of the Municipal building. 

 South Pearl street, from the same quarries. In the last 

 named the seams of argillaceous material, which are 

 revealed by weathering, disfigure the stone. 



The house of John G. Myers, State corner of Swan 

 street, is a fine example of the oolitic limestone from Bed- 

 ford, Indiana. 



Caen limestone from France was employed in the trim- 

 mings of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church, built in i860. 

 It has not proved a durable stone, and much of it in the 

 facings of the doorways and windows and in the quoins and 

 buttresses of the walls, has been replaced by Ohio sand- 

 stone. The disintegration and wear appears to have been 

 most serious in the walls, and less so in the carved finials 

 and mullions. 



Potsdam sandstone is seen in the All Saints cathedral, 

 and in several dwelling-houses on State street. The fronts 

 of Nos. 286 and 290 State street, erected about twenty years, 

 are of this stone with brown-stone trimmings. The stone 

 shows no evidence of wear or disintegration. The house of 

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