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HISTORIC COLUMBUS MARBLE WORKS

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1932; later additions. 306 S. 7th Ave.

Founded in 1846, the marble works initially obtained its stone from as far as Vermont, first by boat and then by rail. In the 1930s, the company purchased a quarry in Sylacauga, Alabama, which it operated until the 1980s. The building, now repurposed as workshop space, has a crowstep facade faced in marble slabs. Inside, its steel frame was originally the structural system of a building in Sheffield, Alabama, and was disassembled, transported, and reassembled here.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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WHITE ARCHES
HOUSES IN SOUTH COLUMBUS
COLUMBUS LIGHT AND WATER DEPARTMENT (U.S. POST OFFICE)
ST. PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
RIVERVIEW

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "HISTORIC COLUMBUS MARBLE WORKS", [Columbus, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR28.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 186-186.

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