In a message dated 2/9/2009 2:36:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
About brownstones -- when I was at Columbia in the late 70's, I spent hours in the NY Public Library compiling a list of brownstone quarries and the buildings that were built from those quarries -- primarily in
NYC (complete with addresses, often)
Fascinating.   About how many traceable quarries?  Dozens?   And how did you connect the quarry with the structure - their own supply catalogues?   Did suppliers actually produce catalogues, or broadsides, or what?   (Brownstone developers left very, very little trace of their activities, suggesting that their PR material, if any, was evanescent.)  About how many specific examples did you assemble?   Were they all big commissions, like Cooper Union or Oddfellow's Hall?  Or little dinky commissions like "row of houses for John D. Crimmins, East 61st Street"?
 
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