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Brownstone is a brown Triassic–Jurassic [1] [2] sandstone that was historically a popular building material. The term is also used in the United States and Canada to refer to a townhouse clad in this or any other aesthetically similar material.
The house is two and a half stories plus a cellar. Brownstone is used for the foundation, and the first story features Flemish bond brickwork on the south and west walls; otherwise common bond brickwork is used. [4] Iron beam anchors are visible on the south wall by the arches of brick voussoirs above the window heads.
Hummelstown brownstone is a medium-grain, dense sandstone quarried near Hummelstown in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA. It is a dark brownstone with reddish to purplish hues, and was once widely used as a building stone in the United States.
An English basement is an apartment (flat in UK English) on the lowest floor of a building, generally a townhouse or brownstone, which is partially below and partially above ground level and which has its own entrance, separate from those of the rest of the building. [1]
The formation is a mostly unconfined aquifer, [34] called the Jacobsville aquifer, [17] that covers an area of 4,363 square miles (11,300 km 2). [35] Despite being a sandstone aquifer, it has a low permeability [ 36 ] and water largely moves through cracks and fissures which extend to a depth of about 100 to 150 ft (30 to 46 m).
In 1994, a new operator, Connecticut Brownstone Quarries, began a small-scale quarrying operation to provide stone for restoration of brownstone buildings. [5] The town purchased the historic quarries and 42 acres (170,000 m 2) of adjacent land in 1999 and 2000. [5] A modern-day view of Brownstone Exploration and Discovery Park.
The hollow glass blocks measure 5-by-5-inch (130 mm × 130 mm) across and 2.5 inches (64 mm) thick. [22] [23] The glass block wall on the third floor lit the living room, but had no movable windows, as the top floor had air conditioning. [24] The living room's glass wall is the largest in the house, with 680 glass blocks. [25]
A greystone in Chicago is similar to the brownstone found in New York and Boston, except the façade is clad in Indiana limestone. Most row houses are separated by a gangway that leads under the common wall between the houses leading to the rear of the property (where sometimes a rear house or coach house exists) and alleyway.