What a fine and noble obsession!  Pity the poor preservationeer who obsesses
about termites, rot, downspouts and inappropriate maintenance procedures.  You
just keep obsessing!

-jc

Anne Sullivan wrote:

> IN the midwest, the pink jaspar from upper minnesota and into south Dakota
> was considered pipe stone. It looks and feels like a granite but is actually
> a dense sandstone. considering the fact that Manhattan rests on schist ( a
> form of granite, I think), could your pipestone have been this,or a strain of
> harder sandstone from the connecticut region?  Just a thought
>
> just sign me:
> "wrote my thesis on building stone and have been obsessed ever since"
> anne s in chicago