MAGIC OF MARBLE FESTIVAL

Listing all the buildings which display this lustrous stone would be difficult; but a few memorable projects are the Dime Savings Bank (NY), the Mercedes-Benz showroom (NY), the Chicago Post Office, the Alabama Archives Building, the Chrysler Mausoleum (NY), and the Al Jolson Shrine (CA). Beautiful cream marble from Sylacauga can be found in hotels, offices, mausoleums, memorials and homes across the country... The quality of Alabama marble has never been disputed. One of the world's greatest sculptors, Gutzon Borglum, creator of Mt. Rushmore, sculpted a masterpiece from Alabama Marble - the bust of Lincoln - which stands today in the rotunda of the nation's capital. Borglum commented that the fine texture of Alabama marble enabled him to portray the expression of kindness on Lincoln's face that he had never been able to do with any other stone... By the 1940s endless uses for calcium products extracted from the marble deposits became obvious. Calcium was needed for agricultural,..