Vermont Marble.  Stone Fabrication at the Quarry.  Vermont Danby and Cavendish Green.

Vermont Marble. Stone Fabrication at the Quarry. Vermont Danby and Cavendish Green.

Vermont Quarries Corporation is a full service quarry and fabricator of historic Vermont Danby white marble and Vermont Verde green serpentine marble. Since the 18th century, important historic buildings throughout the US have used Vermont marble for its proven durability in American climates and for its unique beauty. This material is still available direct from the underground quarry and stone fabrication shop inside Dorset mountain for new and historic restoration projects. Vermont Quarries can cut, carve, turn or otherwise fabricate and finish this historic stone material to your specifications.

Vermont Quarries Corporation

Our Specialties: Vermont Danby White Marble, Vermont Verde Cavendish Green Serpentine Marble, Italian Carrara White Marble, Thick Stock Natural Stone, Marble Columns, Natural Stone Fabrication, Dimensional Stone, Stone for Monuments, Stone Carving & Cutting, Imperial Danby, Olympian Marble.


Vermont Quarries Corporation Vermont Quarries' Danby Quarry, inside Dorset Mountain. Historic building stone gives the builder an advantage that stone from unfamiliar sources can't match; its durability in local climate conditions can be accurately understood by observing the performance of the stone in existing buildings. Over two centuries, Vermont marble has been shipped so widely that no part of settled North America is without a nearby example. Until material has been exposed to a local climate for many years, its true character cannot be known. A carefully chosen historic building stone can help to guarantee the builder's legacy. A beautiful but untried import can cause it to crumble and spall.

A recent $2 million investment by quarry operators in a stone fabrication facility inside the quarry has insured the future availability of Vermont's Danby marbles. Formerly, stone produced at the quarry was shipped in blocks to Italy for fabrication, but it can now be processed on site for better selection, lower cost and quicker scheduling. Danby Quarry is the biggest underground marble quarry in the world, over a mile long with a footprint of twenty five acres and reaching six levels deep. The brand new production line is evidence of Vermont Quarries' long term confidence in the continued growth in demand for the five varieties of marble that are produced at Danby Quarry. Through the six levels, they can access every layer of the geologic formation that formed Vermont's Marble Valley, thereby approximating material from almost any historic quarry in the region.

Recent historical projects continue to drive demand for Danby marble, such as slabs of honed Olympian Danby white marble for niche covers for marking remains in VA mausoleums, a matched series of toilet partitions cut out of a single block of Imperial Danby destined for a new gym at the 1909 Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, 3 inch thick honed veneers produced for a new addition to the 1928 US Court of Appeals in Albany, NY, veneer and pilasters for the restoration of the 1907 Italianate retail "palace" built by the jeweler Tiffany's on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

In new work, this historic material delivers not just proven durability, but a familiar authority derived from continuity with the existing historic built environment that shares in it. Danby Quarry has quite recently produced many new buildings including temples for the Church of the Latter Day Saints in Columbus, Raleigh and Detroit and The Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis. Builders are learning that the choice of a building stone is a consequential one and this understanding has produced a renewed interest in classic materials. Danby Quarry expects to continue to expand capacity and production to meet the demand for this trusted building stone.

Vermont Marble.  Stone Fabrication at the Quarry.  Vermont Danby and Cavendish Green.


CONTACT:

Vermont Quarries Corporation
88 Church Street
Rutland, VT 05701
TEL: 303.530.7230
FAX: 303.530.7250

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