Re:
>: I don't know of a "museum" for stone in New York, but you may be talking
>: about the stoneyard at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in upper
>: manhattan. Its a working stoneyard where neighborhood kids are being
>: trained as masons. They also have a number of displays about the history
>: of the building and the use of stone...
>
>I used to walk by here every day on my way to work & watch a sculptor
>carving the pillars at the entry tympanum into figures...amazing!
>Also...the towers are being completed being carved completely by hand
>(except for rough cutting of the major blocks). If you can arrange to
>get in its a real thing to see.
I would appreciate having the mailing address for the organization running
this project, the name of a contact person if possible. Additionally,
would anyone have run across any 'write-up' concerning the above in any
journal, etc.?
R. Madill
University of Manitoba.
>: I don't know of a "museum" for stone in New York, but you may be talking
>: about the stoneyard at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in upper
>: manhattan. Its a working stoneyard where neighborhood kids are being
>: trained as masons. They also have a number of displays about the history
>: of the building and the use of stone...
>
>I used to walk by here every day on my way to work & watch a sculptor
>carving the pillars at the entry tympanum into figures...amazing!
>Also...the towers are being completed being carved completely by hand
>(except for rough cutting of the major blocks). If you can arrange to
>get in its a real thing to see.
I would appreciate having the mailing address for the organization running
this project, the name of a contact person if possible. Additionally,
would anyone have run across any 'write-up' concerning the above in any
journal, etc.?
R. Madill
University of Manitoba.