THE WOODBURY GRANITES WOODBUR.Y GRANITE CO. HARDWICK .VERMONT. / . i s. > i / i r i / a V'l i . . y "/ i i i ir i THE WOODBURY GRANITES SHOWING A FEW OF THE STRUCTURES IN WHICH OUR GRANITES HAVE BEEN USED WOODBURY GRANITE CO. HARDWICK, VERMONT riv m/'MtftfSfcm m/wmmm From Our Files f I 'HIS book is planned to show some of the buildings and large mon¬ uments for which we have furnished The Woodbury Granites. Herein are to be found state capitols, city halls, art museums and public memorials. Facing each picture is an expression of how our work has appealed to some¬ one interested in that particular piece of construction. In the seventeen years we have been engaged in granite con¬ tracting from time to time some archi¬ tect or builder has sent us his unsolic¬ ited testimony as to our achievements. It is our hope that this book may inter¬ est others who have granite work in prospect. [Page three] ^RESIDENT Geo. C. Markham, of the Northwestern Mutual Life In¬ surance Company, wrote us October 30 , 1913 : — “ There can be no question as to the quality of the granite you have fur¬ nished for this building. I agree with you that it is really beautiful and when the building is completed you will have an advertisement that will extend from Maine to California, and from the Gulf to the Great Lakes.” [Page five] JOHN GILL 8c SONS GENERAL CONTRACTORS CITIZENS BUILDING CLEVELAND December 16th, 1914. Woodbury Granite Co., Hardwick, Vt. Gentlemen: We are very muoh pleased with the White Bethel Granite, you furnished us for the Washington Post Office, and we also take pleasure in informing you that the Department is very much pleased with this work, as it is out and set very well indeed. Yours very truly, JOHN GILL AND SONS By KFG [Page seven] Jos. H. Huston, Architect State Capitol, Harrisburg, Pa. Woodbury_Gray_Granite TX7E furnished the 400,000 cubic * * feet of granite in the exterior of this building in twenty-two months. The contractors, Geo. F. Payne & Son, wrote us August 24, 1906: — “We desire to express our great satis¬ faction at the manner in which you handled your work, and we think we can safely say, so far as the execution of the granite work is concerned, it was the quickest piece of work ever done.” [Page nine] Holabird & Roche, Architects Woodbury Gray Granite Chicago City Hall and Cook County Court House /^\N March 25, 1911, Wm. Holabird, architect, wrote us: — “The Woodbury Granite Company have supplied the granite and fulfilled their contract in an absolutely satis¬ factory manner in every detail. “I have personally twice visited your works and quarry in Vermont, and know that you are equipped as well if not better than any granite com¬ pany in the world, to carry out large contracts well and quickly.” [Page eleven] Wm. Welles Bosworth, Architect Bethel White Granite Western Union Building, New York City F ROM “Broadway.” By John G. Gartland. “The great skyscrapers reared against the blue Like granite cliffs that sentinel a land¬ locked bay.” [Page thirteen] Reeves & Baillie, Architects Woodbury Gray Granite Merchants and Illinois National Bank, Peoria, Ill. \T JOBST & Sons, Peoria, Ill., gen- * • eral contractors for this building, wrote us June 1, 1916: “We, as well as everyone connected with the bank building, are very well pleased with the job furnished us by you.” [Page fifteen] Kirby, Pettit & Green, Architects Bethel White Granite American Bank Note Co. Building, New York City ca»ic «oomii‘BAmi5mT'Ni* *o««. QUOTATION* SUBJECT TO CHANOC- Amkr loan Bank Note Com pany. to-73 Broad Street. NewYork Deoember 7th, 1914. Woodbury Granite Company, Hardwiok, Vermont. Dear Sira; We are pleased to express to you our complete satisfaction in the granite work whioh was furnished by yourselves for our offioe building at the corner of Broad and Beaver streets. The manner in which the work was done gave to the building a most artistic appearance, and the lapse of six years since it has been occupied testifies to the excellent quality of the stone as well as of the workman¬ ship. We would be pleased to recommend your company to anyone contem¬ plating the erection of granite work. Yours very truly, GHD.S. Secretary. ■_Jl- DIRECTORS E C CONVERSE WM.E.CORET W.MURRAY CRANE WM. NELSON CROMWELL J.R.OE LAMAR J. B.FORO WARREN L GREEN ALFRED JARETZKI J.M. LITTLE P C.LOUNSBURY A.MONELL C. A.MOORE WALLACE NESBITT CHARUS M.SABIN F.S.SMITHERS A.V. STOUT D.E.WOODHULL [Page seventeen] T TNDER date of May 31, 1913, Dwight E. Frink wrote us: “The dedication was held yesterday, being attended by thousands and the comments on the job were more than favorable. The general quality of the stock and the large sections or mem¬ bers of which the monument is con¬ structed have appealed to many and we have heard many kindly words for the job. I think it is an example of your work in which you have reason to take some pride.” [Page nineteen] I /^\CTOBER 1, 1906. Referring to your granite which we are using in the Federal Building at Providence, we would say that this granite has ex¬ ceeded our expectations and that we consider it an extremely handsome and satisfactory stone; and as regards the workmanship we would say that it has been very satisfactory, and, as far as our experience goes, decidedly above the average. Very truly yours, CLARKE & HOWE. [Page twenty-one] War Department, Vicksburg National Military Park Commission, Vicksburg, Miss., May 15, 1911 I hereby certify that the Woodbury Granite Company of Hardwick, Ver¬ mont, contractors for the construction of a granite obelisk at Battery Sel¬ fridge in the park, have fully completed said work, in entire conformity with the specifications, to the satisfaction of the Commission, with exceptional skill and fidelity. WM. T. RIGBY, Chairman. [Page twenty-three] ' i' ^riv" ^TvfWU^ff l ■ _ _ _ - ~ «- Trowbridge & Livingston, Architects Woodbury Gray Granite Bankers Trust Co., New York City W'ROM “The Ivory Hunters,” by Frederick Irving Anderson, in ‘‘ Sat¬ urday Evening Post,” for October 28, 1916: — “In downtown New York, a region of architectural giants, there is a building that stands up among its neighbors like a spare, square chimney rising out of a nest of roof¬ tops. At its fortieth story it is capped by a plain pyramid, as serene as Cheops itself. From the apex of this pyramid on clear, cold days there emerges a waving plume of steam. This building, a giant among giants, houses giants. If you took the trouble to make a list of the men who pass in and out at the street door for a month, you would possess a fairly comprehensive Directory of Directors. The elevator system that carries them up and down through the tall shaft is run by an ex-rail¬ road superintendent; it has expresses and locals and specials, and semaphores and red and green signal lights, as well as conductors, engineers, starters and a timetable. When you start for the top floor under the eaves of the pyramid, it is like starting for the moon, and when you arrive you find that the earth you left behind is now laid out at your feet like the putty map you used to make in school.” [Page twenty-five] George A. Freeman, Architect Vermont White Granite Bridgeport Trust Co., Bridgeport, Conn T X 7E have large lathes for turning * * granite columns such as those used in the Bridgeport Trust Company Building, and our quarries are capable of producing monoliths of any size desired. [Page twenty-seven] £j| r ; ~-+ oJ 03 »-< X° ^ - +j -* U "5 o| C 8 ^ o IS u Donn Barber, Architect State Library, Hartford, Conn. Bethel White Granite r | 'HE educating influence of a pure and noble specimen of architecture, built, as the pyramids were constructed, to stand for ages, is not to be measured by dollars.” ANDREW CARNEGIE, in “The Ladies’ Home Journal,” for December, 1916. [Page thirty-one] T^REDERICK C. Hibbard wrote us on February 6, 1913:— “My visit to your quarries and manu¬ facturing plants in Hardwick and Bethel, Vermont, convinced me that you have not only a great supply of granite but unequalled facilities for working it up.” [Page thirty-three] Crandall it Strobell, Architects Union Trust Co., Rochester, N. Y. Bethel White Granite f I 'HE Gorsline & Swan Construction Co., of Rochester, N. Y., sent us this letter July 5, 1911: — “We have finished setting your granite for the Union Trust Co. We take great pleasure in stating to you that we were very much gratified in your workmanlike way in which you handled this job.” [Page thirty-five] McKim, Mead & White, Architects Museum of Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minn. Vermont White Granite /^\N March 18, 1914, we received this ^ telegram: — “We are very much pleased with the quality of the granite supplied by the Woodbury Granite Co., and with the satisfactory way in which they have carried out their contract with us. THE MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS.” [Page thirty-seven] Geo. B. Post & Sons, Architects Bethel White Granite East Front, Wisconsin Capitol, Madison, Wisconsin I 1RAISE from the late Senator Wm. ^ F. Vilas, of Wisconsin, dated Jan. 9, 1908, is worth preserving. His letter reads: — ‘‘The work seems to be going on with such rapidity that unless extremely cold weather sets in, you should be through with what is necessary to do before the roof is complete, in a few days. I congratulate you upon it and I feel myself a sense of obligation to you for the diligence and zeal with which you went after this work and have prosecuted it.” [Page thirty-nine] Geo. B. Post & Sons. Architects Bethel White Granite West Front, Wisconsin Capitol, Madison, Wisconsin r I 'HE Secretary of the Capitol Com- ^ mission of Wisconsin, Hon. Lew F. Porter, says: — “If you care to refer to me as to the ability and honesty of your concern, I will be glad to recommend it, because I feel that I can truthfully say that out of over one hundred contractors who have done work on the building so far, the granite work has given the least trouble. I have always found your con¬ cern able, willing, and cheerful in its work and our dealings, and any differ¬ ences which have arisen in the execu¬ tion of your contract, which to date amounts to $2,000,000, have been so slight as to be forgotten.” [Page forty-one] 1WTARCUS T. Reynolds, architect, of Albany, N. Y., wrote us April 10, 1914: — “I was entirely satisfied with the work that you gave us at Greenfield, and also with the execution of the same, which has given everyone much satis¬ faction.” [Page forty-five] E. L. Masqueray, Architect Bethel White Granite Church of the Immaculate Conception, Minneapolis, Minn. \AT P- DEVEREUX, Vice-Chair- ^ • man of the Pro-Cathedral Building Society, wrote on Aug. 8th, 1910: — “As the construction of the building progresses everyone is delighted with its appearance and it surely will be a monument to the City of Minneapolis and a credit to your company.” [Page forty-seven] E. L. Viquesney, Designer Vermont White Granite Sedgwick County Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Wichita, Kansas /^\N February 21, 1913, Jas. N. Miller, Secretary of the Sedgwick County Soldiers Memorial Association,wrote: - “We did not find a flaw in the material or workmanship. The granite is of a very pleasing tint, and contrasts well with the dark bronze. We are all much pleased with our Memorial.” [Page forty-nine] I |^QR the Cleveland City Hall we furnished 220,000 cubic feet of Woodbury Gray Granite, quarried, cut, carved, delivered and set by us. We are the only granite producers organized and equipped to handle work from quarry ledge to final place in the wall. [Page fifty-one] K ARL BITTER wrote us August 7, 1911: — “I have known the sculptor for many years and feel that I can tell him that I consider your material of such supe¬ riority as you justly claim it to be.” [Page fifty-three] CHARLES F. OWSLEY ARCHITECT 1301*0 MAHONING BANK BLDG. YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO November 38th, 1914, Woodbury Granite Co. Hardwick, Vt. Gentlemen:- In connection with your work in furnishing and setting the granite for the Mahoning County Court House, it gives me pleasure to testify to the excellent manner in which you handled this work from the time of the approval of your very accurate setting and jointing diagrams to the approval of the material in place. We are eminently satisfied with your ability to fully carry out our ideas and to understand the proper co-operation that is necessary for this class of work. [Page fifty-five] Oscar Wenderoth, Supervising Architect New Bedford, Mass., Post Office Woodbury Gray Granite