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Sandstone is a sedimentary rock formed from compacted and cemented sand grains, typically quartz, used as a building stone since antiquity for its workability and warm coloring. Its strength and porosity vary considerably with the mineral cement that binds its grains, silica-cemented sandstone being far more durable than the iron-oxide-cemented brownstone that gave many nineteenth-century American rowhouses their reddish-brown facades and their reputation for surface spalling. Widely quarried across Britain, India and the United States, it has furnished everything from Mughal forts to Victorian civic buildings, prized for cutting cleanly along its bedding planes into regular ashlar blocks.

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Carved from pink sandstone from Rajasthan, following the traditional stone-carving methods used across its exterior.

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Built almost entirely of sandstone blocks quarried from the Kulen hills and floated to the site by canal.

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The walls and terraces use locally quarried Pottsville sandstone, chosen so the house would read as an outgrowth of its own ledge.

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  • Wikipedia: Sandstone, introductory paragraph, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandstone
    Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.
  • Wikipedia: Sandstone, Uses section, on prehistoric construction
    Sandstone has been used since prehistoric times for construction, decorative art works and tools.
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Amber Fort (Wikipedia)
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Luxor Temple (Wikipedia)
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Al-Khazneh (Wikipedia)
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Larkin Administration Building (Wikipedia)
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Castillo San Felipe del Morro, Wikipedia
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Bodiam Castle, Wikipedia
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Stockholm Palace - Wikipedia
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Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque (Wikipedia)
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Conwy Castle (Wikidata)
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Wikipedia: Ulm Minster
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The tower however was mainly built from sandstone.
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The Dakota (Wikipedia)
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The facade is largely composed of brick with sandstone trim and terracotta detailing.
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Wikipedia: Petra
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Wikipedia: Centre Block
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Wikipedia: Umaid Bhawan Palace
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Wikipedia: Jaisalmer Fort
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Wikipedia: White House
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Constructed between 1792 and 1800, its exterior walls are Aquia Creek sandstone painted white.
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Wikipedia: Hawa Mahal
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Built from red and pink sandstone, it is on the edge of the City Palace, Jaipur, and extends to the Zenana, or women's chambers.
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Chaco Culture National Historical Park (Wikipedia)
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Chacoans quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling 15 major complexes that remained the largest buildings ever built in North America until the 19th century.
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Wikipedia: Speyer Cathedral
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Begun in 1030 under Conrad II, with the east end and high vault of 1090-1103, the imposing triple-aisled vaulted basilica of red sandstone is the "culmination of a design which was extremely influential in the subsequent development of Romanesque architecture during the 11th and 12th centuries".
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Kunsthistorisches Museum
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The buildings are rectangular, with symmetrical Renaissance Revival façades of sandstone lined with large arched windows on the main levels and topped with octagonal domes 60 metres (200 ft) high.
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Kinver Rock Houses (Wikipedia)
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The Kinver Rock Houses are a series of cave dwellings carved into the sandstone escarpment at Kinver Edge in Staffordshire, England.
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Gen. Albert Gallatin Jenkins House (Wikipedia)
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The plantation house was built about 1835, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, rectangular, brick dwelling in a late period Federal style.
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Belhurst Castle (Wikipedia)
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The three-story, nine bay wide Romanesque Revival style mansion is constructed of Medina sandstone.
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Alexander Brown House (Wikipedia)
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The Alexander Brown House, at 726 West Onondaga Street in Syracuse, New York, is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in Potsdam sandstone and Spanish tile home built in 1895.
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Clarkson-Knowles Cottage (Wikipedia)
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It was built about 1835 and is a 1+1⁄2-story, five-bay residence constructed of red Potsdam Sandstone in the slab and binder style.
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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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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.
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Bloomberg London (Wikipedia)
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The building is clad in 9,600 tonnes of Derbyshire sandstone with bronze ventilation fins.
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Wikipedia: United States Capitol
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Instead of repairing it, Latrobe demolished, redesigned and rebuilt the interiors within the existing brick and sandstone walls.
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Wikipedia: San Francisco City Hall
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It is faced with Madera County granite on the exterior, and Indiana sandstone within, together with finish marbles from Alabama, Colorado, Vermont, and Italy.
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Rashtrapati Bhavan (Wikipedia)
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== Architecture == === Design === Consisting of four floors and 340 rooms, with a floor area of 200,000 square metres (2,200,000 sq ft), it was built using 700 million bricks and 3,000,000 cu ft (85,000 m3) of stone with little steel.
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Wikipedia: Kronborg
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The exterior walls were clad with sandstone from Scania, and the new castle was given a roof with copper sheeting.
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Alison and Peter Smithson, Wikipedia
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The buildings were constructed using Portland sandstone, a material rich in marine fossils.
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Brown Palace Hotel (Wikipedia)
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The hotel was built in 1892 of sandstone and red granite, one year later than the Oxford Hotel.
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Union Buildings, Wikipedia
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These buildings, built from light sandstone, were designed by the architect Sir Herbert Baker in the English monumental style and are 285 m long.
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Parliament House, New Delhi (Wikipedia)
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The Old Parliament House is a sandstone building unveiled in January 1927 and was designed by the British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker.
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Dada Harir Stepwell (Wikipedia)
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Built in sandstone in Solanki architectural style, the Dada Harir stepwell is five stories deep.
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Modhera Vav (Wikipedia)
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The stepwell is small, moderately ornamented and is constructed using sandstone blocks and stone slabs.
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Boter Kothani Vav (Wikipedia)
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It is constructed of bricks and sandstone.
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Prospect House (Princeton, New Jersey) (Wikipedia)
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The house is a two-story stone structure, built out of rustically cut sandstone, with a three-story tower at one end, and a single-story service wing.
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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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Didsbury Campus (Wikipedia)
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The front of the original house was reclad in a sandstone ashlar facade, with the original rear and courtyard walls of Flemish bond red brick remaining.
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Carthona, Darling Point (Wikipedia)
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Built of sandstone, exterior there is a profusion of gabled slate roofs having castellated parapets and balconies dominated by tall tudor chimneys.
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Archibald Rogers Estate (Wikipedia)
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It is a three-story dwelling constructed of coursed Maine granite with sandstone trim in the Chateauesque style.
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Alfred McCune Home (Wikipedia)
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The exterior of the home was built of red Utah sandstone although some details like the lavish fireplaces used more exotic stone like Nubian marble.
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Florence Court (Wikipedia)
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These are built of dressed sandstone as opposed to the rendered limestone rubble of the central block.
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American Peace Society House (Wikipedia)
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It is one of a series of row houses, built of brick with sandstone trim.
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Forrest Cemetery Chapel and Comfort Station (Wikipedia)
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All three are constructed of rough-cut sandstone blocks quarried from nearby Lookout Mountain.
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John Moses Browning House (Wikipedia)
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The home is a 6,700-square-foot, -story, eight-bedroom mansion built of sandstone and red brick.
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