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    As Lincoln Memorial turns 100, Marble town history is written in pure white stone

    As Lincoln Memorial turns 100, Marble town history is written in pure white stone thumbnail A fluted marble drum fabricated for the Lincoln Memorial, rejected because it did not make the grade. Photo by Alex Menard

    After visiting the beginnings of Colorado-Yule Marble Company in the town of Marble, architect Henry Bacon insisted on using its luminous, white stone for the Parthenon-styled exterior of the Lincoln Memorial he was designing. Its color was, he asserted, “immeasurably superior” to the four tried-and-true marble sources also being considered… read more →