Many of the masons that worked in brownstone at Yale university in the teens
and twenties of this century were Scotts.
Leland
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From: Michael Davidson <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Sunday, December 13, 1998 6:41 AM
Subject: Re: Building Stone Research


>A follow up on Albany; as years ago we were asked to come up and  have a
walk
>through prior to bid documents or even drawings;
> It was around 91 or 92 but I remember the brownstone work was some of the
>most superior you will ever see in this country; or the world ...except..
>..( and here's the historical clue )..Scotland....
>.There is only one other building; built a few years before that dwarfs
Albany
>in craftsmen ship (but not in scale) that is Glasgow City hall.
>.it is my understanding ..that it was those workers who came over to work
on
>the State Capital of New York..
>.I do not know but that was the rumor in Scotland when I lived and worked
>there..ask Ian Cramb (author Art of the Stonemason) he might know.I do know
>the children of some of the workers and meybe even the Gov. were used as
>models in some of the sculpture...regards Michael