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orial Unitarian church, and the Reformed church, on James 

 street, St. Mary's Roman Catholic church, corner of Mont- 

 gomery and Jefferson streets ; in the Onondaga county 

 savings bank ; in the Astronomical observatory and hall 

 of languages, Syracuse university ; the house of Mr. White, 

 on James street, Hogan block and the Peck building. The 

 most beautiful examples of the Onondaga gray limestone 

 are : the United States Government building, the stone of 

 which is from the Reservation quarries ; St. Mary's Roman 

 Catholic church, the St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, 

 the May Memorial church and the new city hall. In St. 

 Paul's church there is a pleasing contrast between the fine- 

 tooled stone, of light-gray shade, as seen in the spire and 

 the trimmings, and the dark-gray, rock-face ashlar of the 

 walls. These buildings are comparatively new, having been 

 built during the present decade. The Onondaga county 

 court house, whose walls are of blocks of uniform size and 

 laid in regular courses, is one of the older buildings in which 

 this stone has been used, and the sound condition of its 

 walls are evidence of the durability of the stone. In some 

 cases north-facing walls of Onondaga limestone are dis- 

 colored or darkened in streaks by a fungus growth, but the 

 stone is not apparently impaired by it. In St. Mary's Ro- 

 man Catholic church this is noticeable. In the bush-ham- 

 mered stone, as in the Government building, the style of 

 dressing shows the corals in the rock, due to the crystalline 

 nature of the coralline masses in the gray matrix. Another 

 possible objection to this stone is the white calcareous de- 

 posits sometimes carried down over red brick walls, when 

 used together. Examples of red brick trimmed with the 

 limestone are seen in Durston Memorial building, on James 

 street, the county clerk's office building. New York state 

 armory building, the Von Ranke library, and others. 



Sandstone from Fulton appears in the First Presbyterian 

 church, Fayette and South Salina streets (built in 1840), and 

 in St. James' Free church, on Locke street. The large per- 



