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testant Episcopal church, State and Third streets, built 

 about fifty years ago, of Amsterdam limestone, and the 

 Methodist Episcopal church. Fifth avenue and State street, 

 of Willsborough Neck, are examples showing the durability 

 of this limestone. In the first-named the clay seams are 

 prominent and unsightly, although not impairing the 

 strength. The parish house of the St. Paul's church is of 

 Schenectady bluestone. 



Reference is here made to the recently completed crema- 

 tory in the Oak Hill cemetery, as a beautiful specimen piece 

 of architecture in granite, from Westerly, Rhode Island. 



The monument to General Wool, in the same cemetery, 

 is remarkable as a monolith of gray granite, sixty feet in 

 height, and quarried at Vinal Haven, Penobscot Bay, Maine. 



Streets. — The sidewalks and curbing are mainly Hudson 

 river blue-stone, although much brick continues on the less 

 traveled streets. 



The statistics of roadways are as follows : ^ 



Cobblestone paved streets 5.5 miles 



Granite block paved streets 9.12 " 



Stone block paved streets 5 " 



Total stone-paved 15.12 miles 



Schenectady 



Quarries in the blue-stone and in the limestone of the 

 Mohawk valley furnish stone for foundations and some 

 dimension and cut-work. The so-called '' Schenectady blue- 

 stone " is quarried within the city limits, on the east. For 

 house-trimmings and for steps and platforms, limestone from 

 quarries at Tribes Hill has been used largely, although not 

 so generally as in former years, and, in the newer build- 

 ings, more brownstone and red sandstone are to be seen. 



Among the stone buildings of the place reference is made 

 to the following: The First Reformed church, Union and 



* From P. H. Baerman, civil engineer, Troy. 



