Knoxville - Boston Connections


Posted by scott ® , Oct 03,2003,02:31   MetroBlab

So the first couple that I noticed:

James Agee went to school at Harvard, and if the ghost could talk around this place man I'm waiting to hear.

Boston Public Library The floors, walls and vaulted ceiling are of pink Knoxville marble; the floor is inlaid with patterns of brown Knoxville and Levanto marble.

http://www.bpl.org/guides/walkmckim.htm

Anybody else know of any ktown btown connections, is there any knoxville marble in knoxville?


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Posted by ilyich ® , Oct 03,2003,20:48   MetroBlab

is there any knoxville marble in knoxville?

I'd guess that every pre-1950 elementary school has bathroom stalls made out of it.


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Knoxville - Boston Connections -- scott
Posted by Smootz ® , Oct 03,2003,08:56   MetroBlab

scott says: "Anybody else know of any ktown btown connections, is there any knoxville marble in knoxville?"

That first one is a Jack Neely style question and I'm sure he could expound expansively.

The second, come'on Scott! The U.S. Courthouse and Post Office is pink marble. It's been renovated in the last year and now houses the state appellate courts, post office and Union Planters bank. Sam Furrow, the new owner, did a nice job rehabbing the bldg after years of neglect by it's former owner, the U.S. Gov't.

The "modern" state court building that is now out of use, catty corner across the street, is the same marble.

I wonder if the Customs House marble is local. I bet it is. It looks like the white marble that got sent to Wash. DC for the monuments there.

Take care,
Smootz


Knoxville - Boston Connections

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Knoxville - Boston Connections -- Smootz
Posted by scott ® , Oct 03,2003,09:18   MetroBlab

Yea I guess that was a Jack Neely sorta question lol?

Hmmm yeah I guess I'm a bit ignorant of the whole knoxville Marble History.