This house in Asheville, North Carolina is constructed with Philadelphia Building Blocks made at the quarry. Note the keystones on the lower windows.
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The Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C. contains more than 300,000 cubic feet of Mount Airy granite and is considered one of the finest granite structures in America. The 2,200 foot bridge that spans the Potomic River was constructed in 1925 and all of the bridge above the waterline was made of Mount Airy granite.
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The marble on the Amoco Building in Chicago, Illinois, has been replaced with White Mount Airy Granite, making the Amoco Building the tallest granite clad building in the world.
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This is an aerial view of the largest open faced granite quarry in the world which is located in Mount Airy, North Carolina.
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