Florentine blue marble

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Description

A fine-grain, light gray-blue marble quarried in Pittsford, Vermont. Florentine blue marble has dark blue veins and light gray bands. It was used for monuments and interior polished surfaces.

Authority

  • Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996
  • Frank A. Lent, Frank A. Lent, Trade names and Descriptions of Marbles, Limestones, Sandstones, Granites and Other Building Stones Quarried in the United States Canada and other Countries., Stone Publishing Co, New York, 1925

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