Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of calcium carbonate, quarried and cut into blocks for facades, cladding and load-bearing masonry since antiquity. Its relative softness when freshly quarried makes it easy to carve, hardening on exposure to air, a property ancient Egyptian and Greek builders exploited for temples and, later, European cathedral builders used for tracery and sculpture. Color ranges from near-white through buff, gray and honey tones depending on mineral impurities and quarry source, notably Indiana limestone in the United States and Portland stone in England. It weathers by slow dissolution in acidic rainwater, which softens architectural detail over centuries but rarely threatens structural integrity.
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Limestone is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
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Limestone is very common in architecture, especially in Europe and North America.
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Strokestown Park (Wikipedia)
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Villa Parisio (Wikipedia)
Villa Guardamangia (Wikipedia)
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Aragonese Castle (Wikipedia)
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Seen In: Naryn-Kala Citadel, Infobox material field: Limestone blocksView the Source Canterbury Cathedral (Wikipedia)
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The limestone used was imported from Caen in Normandy, and Purbeck marble was used for the shafting.
View the Source Old Dispensary (Zanzibar) (Wikipedia)
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the main structure is built with traditional Zanzibari coral rag and limestone, but covered with stucco adornments
View the Source DuPont-Guest Estate (Wikipedia)
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white marble and limestone embellishments
View the Source Earnest Farms Historic District (Wikipedia)
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The first-story walls were built out of limestone blocks, and the second and third stories were built using logs
View the Source UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Castel del Monte
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the exterior limestone block construction is intact
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"building:material": "limestone"
View the Source Eddystone Lighthouse (Wikipedia)
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The foundations and outside structure were built of local Cornish granite, while lighter Portland limestone masonry was used on the inside.
View the Source Wikipedia: Flatiron Building
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The three-story base is clad with limestone
View the Source Philadelphia City Hall - Wikipedia
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Built using brick, white marble and limestone
View the Source 111 West 57th Street (Wikipedia)
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Steinway Hall is a New York City designated landmark and has a facade made mostly of brick, limestone, and terracotta
View the Source Gen. Jacob Brown Mansion (Wikipedia)
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It is a two-story limestone structure built from 1811 to 1815.
View the Source Palace of Westminster (Wikipedia)
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They selected Anston, a sand-coloured magnesian limestone quarried in the villages of Anston, South Yorkshire, and Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire.
View the Source Woolworth Building (Wikipedia)
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Its facade is mostly clad with architectural terracotta, though the lower portions are limestone, and it features thousands of windows.
View the Source Royal Palace of Madrid - Wikipedia
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The main façade, facing the Plaza de la Armería, rises above a rusticated base and is articulated by giant-order columns and pilasters, with a contrast between grey granite and white limestone.
View the Source Algonquin Hotel, Wikipedia
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The first two stories of the facade are made of rusticated limestone blocks, while the upper stories have a Renaissance Revival brick facade, with limestone, metal, and terracotta details inspired by the Beaux-Arts style.
View the Source Cape Town City Hall - Wikipedia
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It is located on the Grand Parade, to the west of the Castle, and is built from honey-coloured oolitic limestone, imported from Bath in England.
View the Source Uppsala Cathedral - Wikipedia
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The cathedral's principal construction material is brick but the pillars and many details are of Gotland limestone.
View the Source 40 Wall Street (Wikipedia)
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While the lower section has a facade of limestone, the upper stories incorporate a buff-colored brick facade and contain numerous setbacks.
View the Source Pyramid of Senusret III (Wikipedia)
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It was erected on leveled ground and composed of a mudbricks core covered with a casing of white Tura limestone blocks resting on foundations.
View the Source Hart-Cluett Mansion (Wikipedia)
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Thompson, of New York City, it is a Federal style townhouse with decorated marble and limestone facing considered one of the best and most intact houses in that style in the city of Troy.
View the Source Fort Hill Estate (Wikipedia)
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The estate home is a monumental brick and limestone Tudor Revival style structure built as a summer home for Anne Alden in 1879, and enlarged for the industrialist William John Matheson in 1900.
View the Source Edmund Wilson House (Wikipedia)
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It was built over a four-year period starting in 1789 and is a 2+1⁄2-story limestone building, three bays wide and four bays long.
View the Source Bellefonte Academy (Wikipedia)
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The original building was built in 1805, as a two-story, rectangular limestone building.
View the Source Judge John Fine House (Wikipedia)
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Both sections are built of local blue limestone and feature gabled roofs.
View the Source Wikipedia: Tikal
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The architecture of the ancient city is built from limestone and includes the remains of temples that tower over 70 meters (230 ft) high, large royal palaces, in addition to a number of smaller pyramids, palaces, residences, administrative buildings, platforms and inscribed stone monuments.
View the Source York Minster (Wikipedia)
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The stone used for the building is magnesian limestone, a creamy-white coloured rock that was quarried in nearby Tadcaster.
View the Source Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (Wikipedia)
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The main structure is built from a blend of Indian sandstone and limestone, while high-quality Italian marble was used for the key decorative elements.
View the Source Wikipedia: Pompeii
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It formed the basis for the currently visible walls with an outer wall of rectangular limestone blocks as a terrace wall supporting a large agger, or earth embankment, behind it.
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It formed the basis for the currently visible walls with an outer wall of rectangular limestone blocks as a terrace wall supporting a large agger, or earth embankment, behind it.
View the Source Waldorf Astoria New York (Wikipedia)
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In addition, 200 railroad cars brought some 800,000 cubic feet (23,000 m3) of limestone for the building's facing, 27,100 tons of steel for the skeleton superstructure, and 2.595 million square feet (241,100 m2) of terra cotta and gypsum block.
View the Source Maiden Castle, Dorset, Wikipedia
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The bank had a wall faced with limestone, which was brought from more than 3 km (2 mi) away.
View the Source Nineveh (Wikipedia)
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The solid foundation was made out of limestone blocks and mud bricks; it was 22 metres (72 ft) tall.
View the Source Rockefeller Center (Wikipedia)
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One of the landmark buildings' defining features is the Indiana limestone facade possessed by all 14 structures, as specified in the original plans.
View the Source GUM (department store) (Wikipedia)
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The facade is divided into several horizontal tiers, lined with red Finnish granite, Tarusa marble, and limestone.
View the Source The Breakers (Wikipedia)
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Foundation: brick, concrete, and limestone Trusses: steel Walls: Indiana limestone Roof: red terra cotta tile Wall panels: platinum leaf (eight reliefs of mythological figures only) Other: marble (plaques), wrought iron (gates and fences)
View the Source Big Ben, Wikipedia
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It was constructed using bricks clad on the exterior with sand-coloured Anston limestone from South Yorkshire, topped by a spire covered in hundreds of cast iron roof-tiles.
View the Source Fairmont Copley Plaza - Wikipedia
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The seven-floor hotel is constructed of limestone and buff brick in the Beaux-Arts style.
View the Source Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Wikipedia
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It is built in medium-hard limestone from upper Burgundy.
View the Source Union Station (Toronto), Wikipedia
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The colonnaded loggia which faces Front Street features 22 equally spaced Roman Tuscan columns made from Bedford limestone, each 40 feet (12 m) high and weighing 75 tons.
View the Source Wikipedia: Uruk
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The Stone Temple was built of limestone and bitumen on a podium of rammed earth and plastered with lime mortar.
View the Source Qasr Al Watan - Wikipedia
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In 2020, the Qasr Al Watan Presidential Palace was nominated for the World Travel Awards as the main cultural tourist attraction in the Middle East.
View the Source Traveller's Rest (Kearneysville, West Virginia) (Wikipedia)
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He built this limestone house and became a slave owner, a local justice, and a lieutenant colonel in the militia.
View the Source Brooklyn Bridge (Wikipedia)
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They are built of limestone, granite, and Rosendale cement.
View the Source Pont du Gard (Wikipedia)
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The bridge has three tiers of arches made from Shelly limestone and stands 48.8 m (160 ft) high.
View the Source Alamo Mission (Wikipedia)
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Constructed of 4-foot (1.2 m) thick limestone blocks excavated from a site later occupied by the San Antonio Zoo, it was intended to be three stories high and topped by a dome, with bell towers on either side.
View the Source Library of Trinity College Dublin (Wikipedia)
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The lower storey is built of muddy, well-bedded Calp Limestone, cut into regular rusticated ashlar blocks, which were quarried at Palmerstown...
View the Source Pyramid of Djedefre (Wikipedia)
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The exterior is thought to have been clad with limestone and polished granite.
View the Source Pyramid of Khafre (Wikipedia)
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It is made of limestone blocks weighing more than 2 tons each.
View the Source Pyramid of Amenemhat I (Wikipedia)
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The core of the pyramid was made with small rough blocks of local limestone with a loose fill of sand debris and mud brick.
View the Source Black Pyramid (Wikipedia)
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Typical for pyramids of the Middle Kingdom, the Black Pyramid, although encased in limestone, is made of mud brick and clay instead of stone.
View the Source Pyramid of Khendjer (Wikipedia)
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The pyramid was constructed with a mudbrick core and a limestone outer casing with its backing stones.
View the Source Pyramid of Ahmose (Wikipedia)
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The pyramid measured 52.5 m (172 ft) on each side, which corresponds to 100 royal cubits, and consisted of a core of rubble and sand, which was hidden with a cladding of fine limestone.
View the Source Saratoga (Boyce, Virginia) (Wikipedia)
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The main house is a large 2+1⁄2-story limestone structure with a gabled roof and end chimneys.
View the Source Djinguereber Mosque (Wikipedia)
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Except for a small part of the northern facade, which was reinforced in the 1960s in alhore (limestone blocks, also widely used in the rest of the town), and the minaret, also built in limestone and rendered with mud, the Djingareyber Mosque is made entirely of earth plus organic materials such as fibre, straw and wood.
View the Source Cincinnati Union Terminal (Wikipedia)
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The low walls and pylons in front of the building are made of the same limestone.
View the Source Florence Court (Wikipedia)
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These are built of dressed sandstone as opposed to the rendered limestone rubble of the central block.
View the Source Torre dell'Elefante (Wikipedia)
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The tower was built on three sides in white limestone from the nearby Colle di Bonaria; another side was open, following the traditional Pisan style, and featured four floors of wooden galleries.
View the Source Port Hope station (Wikipedia)
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The station, built from local limestone as part of the 1856 Grand Trunk Railway, opened on the October 27, 1856 inauguration of Montreal-Toronto mainline service.
View the Source Rocca Maggiore (Wikipedia)
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The complex consists of fortress walls built with the pink limestone of Mount Subasio.
View the Source Jeronimos Monastery (Wikipedia)
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For its construction he used calcário de lioz, a gold-coloured limestone quarried from Ajuda, the valley of Alcántara, Laveiras, Rio Seco and Tercena.
View the Source Nymphenburg Palace - Wikipedia
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As a building material, it utilised limestone from Kelheim.
View the Source Biltmore Estate, Wikipedia
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Hunt sited the four-story Indiana limestone-built home to face east, with a 375-foot (114 m) facade to fit into the mountainous topography behind.
View the Source Wikipedia: Ebla
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Limestone was used to build the walls and few blocks protruding from the sides toward the middle of the rooms suggest the roof to have been a corbelled vault.
View the Source New Town Hall (Munich) - Wikipedia
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The complex of brick and shell limestone has six courtyards, built on an area of 9,159 m2 where the building covers 7,115 m2.
View the Source Belle Grove Plantation (Middletown, Virginia) (Wikipedia)
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It was constructed of local limestone quarried on the property, and, according to prevailing custom, was intended to display the owners' high social and financial status.
View the Source Belle Meade Plantation - Wikipedia
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The entrance façade featured a two-story, five-bay block constructed on a limestone foundation and flanked with symmetrical one-story wings.
View the Source Carnton (Wikipedia)
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Built on a raised limestone foundation, the southern facing entrance façade is a two-story, five-bay block with a side-facing gabled roof, covered in tin, with two dormer windows, and slightly projecting end chimneys.
View the Source Lighthouse of Alexandria (Wikipedia)
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The light was produced by a furnace at the top, and the tower was said to have been built mostly with solid blocks of limestone and granite.
View the Source Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep III (Wikipedia)
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The chamber was constructed of red quartzite blocks and its walls were lined with limestone instead of the expected granite.
View the Source Luther College Farm (Wikipedia)
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The icehouse is a one-story limestone masonry structure with thick walls.
View the Source Chicago Board of Trade Building, Wikipedia
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Clad in gray Indiana limestone, topped with a copper pyramid roof, and standing on a site running 174 ft (53 m) east-west on Jackson Boulevard and 240 ft (73 m) north-south on LaSalle Street, the 605 ft (184 m) tall art deco-styled building opened on June 9, 1930.
View the Source Belem Tower (Wikipedia)
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The structure was built from lioz limestone, a material local to the Lisbon region, and is composed of a bastion and a 30-metre (100 ft) four-storey tower.
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