[MassHistPres] seam faced granite

[Dennis De Witt]

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I have been digging a little into the use of seam faced granite — example below.   

I wonder if Cram may have first popularized it as a contrasty somewhat rustic material, beginning with All Sts Ashmont in 1891 — altho do I find Henry Vaughan using it at St. Mary’s Upham’s Corner in ’88 but with non-contrasting brownstone trim.  

Am I missing earlier examples?

It seems to have been a specifically Boston area quarried material and it strikes me as a Boston Arts & Crafts-ish example of using “reject” material, somewhat like the adoption of over-fired klinker a.k.a “bench” brick, but a tad earlier.

Dennis De Witt
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum

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