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employed, to a great extent for trimming with brick, and for 

 street work. One of the most notable examples of this stone 

 is the massive Susquehanna Valley bank building, on Court 

 street. The stone is fine-cut and laid in courses. Sisson's 

 block, on the same street, the Broome county court-house 

 (basement story) and a front on the Court-House square 

 are other noteworthy Onondaga limestone buildings ; and, 

 with red brick, the High school and the church opposite, 

 on Court street. The use of this stone is, however, declin- 

 ing, and it is being replaced by sandstone. 



Streets. — For sidewalks, flagstone from quarries on the 

 Delaware river, between Hancock and Port Jervis, is most 

 commonly used. And there is an aggregate length of 

 eleven and three-fourths miles of street with seven-foot 

 stone sidewalks, equivalent to twenty-three and one-half 

 miles linear measurement."^* Stone curbing, two and one- 

 half feet by four inches thick, is laid on at least one-third of 

 the streets as yet unpaved. None of the roadways are 

 paved with stone, asphalt and wood being used. 



Syracuse 



As might be expected from the nearness of the quarries 

 in the famous Onondaga limestone, Syracuse is built largely 

 of limestone. Both the blue and the gray varieties are 

 used — the former in foundations and rough wall-work, the 

 latter in cut-work. This stone is seen in all the heavy 

 masonry, and in nearly all of the older buildings. Sand- 

 stones from Ohio, Massachusetts and New Jersey, and from 

 Potsdam, Warsaw and Granbyhave taken its place in some 

 of the newer constructions. Granite has not been used to 

 any extent. 



The Onondaga gray limestone is seen in the new city 

 hall, the United States Government building, St. Paul's 

 Protestant Episcopal church, on Fayette street. May Mem- 



* Letter of H. C, Merrick, City Engineer, December 26, 1889. 



