When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: basswood blocks price for 6 x 6 x 16 grooved transcend tropical island mist

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Bass Island Brownstone Company Quarry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Island_Brownstone...

    The Bass Island Brownstone Company Quarry, also known as the Basswood Island Quarry, on Basswood Island in Lake Superior was operational from 1868 to 1893. The brownstone was first used for construction of the second Milwaukee County Courthouse, now demolished. The quarry, now filled with water, is about 200 feet (61 m) long and about 25 feet ...

  3. Basswood Island - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basswood_Island

    A family gathering on Basswood Island in 1916. Basswood Island is a Wisconsin island in Lake Superior. It is one of the Apostle Islands and a part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. From 1865 to 1923, the island was home to a farm run by Richard McCloud and Elisha Brigham. [1] It was also the site of a quarry run by the Bass Island ...

  4. Concrete block - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_block

    A pallet of "8-inch" concrete blocks An interior wall of painted concrete blocks Concrete masonry blocks A building constructed with concrete masonry blocks. A concrete block, also known as a cinder block in North American English, breeze block in British English, or concrete masonry unit (CMU), or by various other terms, is a standard-size rectangular block used in building construction.

  5. Rustication (architecture) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustication_(architecture)

    Rustication is a range of masonry techniques used in classical architecture giving visible surfaces a finish texture that contrasts with smooth, squared-block masonry called ashlar. The visible face of each individual block is cut back around the edges to make its size and placing very clear.

  6. Glacial striation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_striation

    Glacial striations at Mount Rainier National Park Glacial grooves stemming from the Wisconsin glaciation at Kelleys Island, Ohio. Glacial striations or striae are scratches or gouges cut into bedrock by glacial abrasion. These scratches and gouges were first recognized as the result of a moving glacier in the late 18th century when Swiss ...

  7. Basswood (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basswood_(disambiguation)

    Basswood (/ ˈ b æ s w ʊ d /) is the common name of several species of the genus Tilia: Tilia americana, American basswood; Tilia caroliniana, Carolina basswood; Tilia heterophylla, white basswood; Basswood may also refer to: Basswood, Michigan, an unincorporated community in the United States; Basswood, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community ...