Sentence examples for local granite from inspiring English sources

The nuclear power station took over the site once occupied by the local granite mine, which closed in 1962.

Ten miles south of Boston, the current church was built of local granite on land donated by John Adams.

Sheathed in local granite and designed with straight lines and right angles, it rises about 70 feet above street level.

There is also a wine cellar, a fitness center, a custom-designed Jacuzzi, and a 82-foot lap pool, both lined with polished local granite and illuminated with skylights.

A skyline of ornate early 20th-century buildings, some in Gothic, some in Italianate styles, most made from local granite and marble, stood out against a blue sky and a ring of darker blue mountains.

Many of the public buildings were built from the area's distinctive honeycomb-coloured local granite, including the courthouse where Ned Kelly, his mother Ellen and many sympathisers to his cause were tried.

Otherwise, the commonest K+ minerals are orthoclase, feldspar, microcline, leucite, biotite in local granites of the area (Nkotagu 1996).

However, most of the buildings that were constructed for the exposition were made of local Georgia granite and the buildings were dismantled after the event so that the granite could be sold to absolve the debt that the city incurred to hold the fair.

Many former and serving soldiers have come, to lay stones from the Falklands, Afghanistan, or to spend a day laying local Cumbrian granite on the cairn.

What was constructed is beautiful: a tower of local Kersanton granite 60 yards above sea level, with a curving staircase of 272 steps tiled in pale blue-green opaline glass, rising to a wood-paneled room with a statue of the marshal and a marble ceiling, with brass finials.

Construction since then has increasingly utilized steel, concrete, light alloys, imported lumber, local stone especially granites, marbles, and limestone and slates from Hejaz.