I hate the tiles at the UN.

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8. I didn't know you were a stone mason! That is so neat!

My husband second step grandfather was a marble importer. When the Florida state capital building was remodeled in 1952 he supplied the marble for the building. In the late 1970s when the building was restored to the 1902 version, we bought as much of the marble from the state surplus sale as we could. When we built our house ten years ago we finally used the marble that we had purchased.

Most is Georgia white marble - some was paneling along the halls but some sheets had been the dividing walls in the rest rooms. The sheets were used above our kitchen counters and as the seat in the shower in the master bath.

A very few pieces of the green marble that had been used as base boards survived - those were used as a short back splash in the half bath.

"Uncle Billy" as my husband called his step grandfather, hated the green marble. His sources in Italy did not have good quality and the stuff tended to crumble.