Post office there are six types of marble used in the building design.
Tn pink marble.
The four eagles that decorate the top of the columns weigh five and a half tons each.
Tennessee marble is abundant but only found here in east tennessee.
Tennessee pink marble is a kind of pink marble quarried in united states.
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Photo courtesy of the knoxville museum of art in the downtown knoxville u s.
The stone occurs in belts of ordovician period rocks known as the holston formation 5 and is quarried primarily in knox blount loudon union and hawkins counties.
While pink is the most well known tennessee marble color the stone also occurs in gray dark brown cedar and variegated shades.
We readily keep varieties of tennessee pink quaker gray cedar champlain black and other domestic stones at our headquarters in friendsville tn.
Tennessee pink marble is featured on the facade of the knoxville museum of art.
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