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Masonry is the craft of building a structure from individual units such as stone, brick, or concrete blocks bound together with mortar, and the term can also refer to the building units themselves; it is generally a highly durable form of construction, though its durability depends on the materials, mortar quality and workmanship used. This entity is used in the atlas when a building's own source states its construction only as "masonry" without naming the specific unit material, a genuinely distinct construction-class concept from any single named material such as stone, brick or concrete already carried as their own entities.

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Masonry (Wikipedia)
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Masonry is the craft of building a structure with stone, brick, concrete, or similar material, including mortar plastering, which are often laid in, bound, and pasted together by mortar. The term masonry can also refer to the building units (stones, bricks, concrete blocks, etc.) themselves. The common materials of masonry construction are bricks and building stone; rocks such as granite, marble, and limestone; cast stone, concrete blocks, glass blocks, and adobe.
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Wikipedia: Spis Castle
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Wikidata: City Palace, Udaipur
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Wikipedia: Fort Santiago
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Holmwood House (Wikidata)
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Philadelphia City Hall - Wikipedia
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the world's largest free-standing masonry building
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Hotel Chelsea - Wikipedia
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thick load-bearing walls made of masonry
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Lighthouse of Genoa (Wikipedia)
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Built of masonry, at 76 m (249 ft)
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Wikipedia: Meenakshi Amman Temple
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It consists of monuments inside several concentric enclosures (prakara), each layer fortified with high masonry walls.
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Castillo de San Marcos, Wikipedia
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Mark’s Castle”) is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States; it is located on the western shore of Matanzas Bay in St.
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Belle Grove Plantation (Iberville Parish, Louisiana), Wikipedia
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The masonry structure stood 62 feet (19 m) high and measured 122 feet (37 m) wide by 119 feet (36 m) deep, with seventy-five rooms (including a jail cell) spread over four floors.
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Causeway (Wikipedia)
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It can be constructed of earth, masonry, wood, or concrete.
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Taliesin West (Wikipedia)
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The walls are made of desert masonry, a mixture of local rocks and concrete, which were originally topped by wood-and-canvas roofs.
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Carter Farm (Wikipedia)
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The main house was built between 1848 and 1852, and is a 1+1⁄2-story brick residence in the Greek Revival style.
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Lord's Castle (Wikipedia)
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The 2+1⁄2-story masonry house was built as a private residence inspired by Norman castles.
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Spring Valley School District 120 Building (Wikipedia)
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It is a single-story stone masonry structure with a hip roof and an entrance recessed under an arched corner porch.
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National Congress Palace (Wikipedia)
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    The structure is composed of steel columns and beams clad in concrete, with double slabs.
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    The structure is composed of steel columns and beams clad in concrete, with double slabs.
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Tiwanaku (Wikipedia)
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It was built with walls of sandstone pillars and smaller blocks of Ashlar masonry.
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Chittor Fort - Wikipedia
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The 4.5 km walls with integrated circular enforcements are constructed from dressed stone masonry in lime mortar and rise 500 m above the plain.
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Palais Garnier, Wikipedia
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The structural system is made of masonry walls; concealed iron floors, vaults, and roofs.
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Mesa Verde National Park, Wikipedia
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At this time, Ancestral Pueblo people began to move away from the post and mud jacal-style buildings that marked the Pueblo I Period toward masonry construction, which had been utilized in the region as early as 700, but was not widespread until the 11th and 12th centuries.
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The Breakers (Wikipedia)
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Vanderbilt insisted that the building be made as fireproof as possible, resulting in a structure composed of masonry and steel trusses, with no wooden parts.
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Volubilis - Wikipedia
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Built of rubble masonry and ashlar, they are mostly still extant.
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Calakmul - Wikipedia
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The innermost zone covers an area of approximately It contains most of the monumental architecture and has 975 mapped structures, about 300 of which are built from vaulted stone masonry.
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Brooklyn Bridge (Wikipedia)
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The approaches are supported by Renaissance-style arches made of masonry; the arch openings themselves were filled with brick walls, with small windows within.
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Carnegie Hall (Wikipedia)
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Carnegie Hall was constructed with heavy masonry bearing walls, as lighter structural steel framework was not widely used when the building was completed.
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Wat Phra Kaew (Wikipedia)
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The temple's main hall was the first building within the entire palace compound that was completed in masonry, while the king's residence was still made of wood.
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Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Wikipedia)
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The shrine was built in the style of medieval churches, relying on thick masonry walls and columns in place of structural steel and reinforced concrete.
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James C. Flood Mansion (Wikipedia)
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It is a large masonry structure, three stories in height, its exterior finished in brownstone quarried in Portland, Connecticut and shipped around Cape Horn.
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Bedi Mahal (Wikipedia)
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The materials used for its construction consisted of sandstone and burnt clay (lime surkhi).
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Oscar Hammerstein II Farm (Wikipedia)
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The farmhouse was built in 1840, and is a three-story, three-bay, stuccoed masonry residence with a hipped roof.
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Casa Font-Ubides (Wikipedia)
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The Monsanto Residence, located at 34 Castillo Street, is a one-storey, detached, masonry and stone building on the north side of the street, between Virtud and Salud Streets, in the Ponce Historic Zone.
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Casa Wiechers-Villaronga (Wikipedia)
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The building rests on a rusticated stone podium; its facades and main walls are of brick masonry with some interior partitions and walls of the gallery and kitchen in wood.
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