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The Smithsonian Castle and the Seneca Quarry /
- Title
- The Smithsonian Castle and the Seneca Quarry / Garrett Peck.
- Author
- Peck, Garrett.
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- 141 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Quarries and quarrying
- Sandstone
- Public buildings
- Buildings
- Public buildings > Design and construction
- Seneca Quarry > History > 19th century
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- History
- Quarries and quarrying > Maryland > Seneca > History > 19th century
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.) History
- Washington (D.C.) > Buildings, structures, etc
- 1800-1899
- Sandstone > Maryland > Seneca > History > 19th century
- Public buildings > Washington (D.C.) > History > 19th century
- Seneca (Md.) > History > 19th century
- Public buildings > Washington (D.C.) > Design and construction > History > 19th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / by Richard Stamm -- The Quarry Master -- The Story of the Quarry -- The Smithsonian Castle -- The Civil War Comes to Seneca -- Stonecutters -- The Seneca Stone Ring Scandal -- The Building Boom -- The Quarry's Final Years -- Saving Seneca.
- ISBN
- 9781609499297
- 1609499298
- LCCN
- 2013000677
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library