building in a major way without changing materially the character or general effect of the particular design.
The extent to which this is possible is not always appreciated by architects as much as it should be, in order that they may best serve their clients in an economic way and at the same time get the most out of their designs. Especially is this true
of natural stone, which must be shaped from or cut out of the solid block; even more so of building stones like Indiana Limestone which are to such a large extent worked by highly developed machine methods.
The architect can often magnify the beauty of his building design by tlie execution of it in the most appropriate material, a material that will age gracefully; and can be depended upon to assure for all time the good appearance of his creative work.
It will therefore be the effort of the writer of this series of articles to present to the profession a general statement of the use of limestone in building construction, extracting from some of the technical reports on this material, such information as it is thought will be generally useful and assembling it in a very brief form for convenient reference. This will be supplemented with detailed
information regarding the proper and economical use of limestone in modern building construction.
While it will, of course, be impossible in the scope of these articles to prepare anything like a comprehensive treatise on the detailing of limestone, an attempt will be made to present all of the more important points and prepare a series of solutions of the many questionable points, which are more or less perplexing to the architectural draftsman and which are all more or less affected by modern machine methods of production.
Fig. 2. General view of a limestone quarry
Showing the huge blocks of stone that are cut from the solid ledge by the channeling process and then split up in Mill
Blocks for shipment to cut stone plants
The extent to which this is possible is not always appreciated by architects as much as it should be, in order that they may best serve their clients in an economic way and at the same time get the most out of their designs. Especially is this true
of natural stone, which must be shaped from or cut out of the solid block; even more so of building stones like Indiana Limestone which are to such a large extent worked by highly developed machine methods.
The architect can often magnify the beauty of his building design by tlie execution of it in the most appropriate material, a material that will age gracefully; and can be depended upon to assure for all time the good appearance of his creative work.
It will therefore be the effort of the writer of this series of articles to present to the profession a general statement of the use of limestone in building construction, extracting from some of the technical reports on this material, such information as it is thought will be generally useful and assembling it in a very brief form for convenient reference. This will be supplemented with detailed
information regarding the proper and economical use of limestone in modern building construction.
While it will, of course, be impossible in the scope of these articles to prepare anything like a comprehensive treatise on the detailing of limestone, an attempt will be made to present all of the more important points and prepare a series of solutions of the many questionable points, which are more or less perplexing to the architectural draftsman and which are all more or less affected by modern machine methods of production.
Fig. 2. General view of a limestone quarry
Showing the huge blocks of stone that are cut from the solid ledge by the channeling process and then split up in Mill
Blocks for shipment to cut stone plants