Notable Buildings
Buildings such as the Biltmore Estate, Empire State Building, The Pentagon, Hotel Pennsylvania and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum feature Indiana limestone in their exteriors. Indiana limestone was used extensively in rebuilding Chicago after the Great Chicago Fire. Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York, opened in 2009, extensively utilizes Indiana Limestone paneling on its exterior facade. The original 1930s buildings of Rockefeller Center use limestone from Bedford. In 1955 the Tennessee State Capitol exterior was renovated using Indiana Limestone to replace the poorer quality Tennessee Limestone that had started to deteriorate. Indiana limestone has been particularly popular for the construction of university buildings in the Midwest. The Neogothic campus of the University of Chicago is almost entirely constructed out of Bedford Indiana Limestone, in keeping with the trend of post-Fire buildings using the material. The campus of Washington University in St. Louis, both new construction and its original buildings, makes use of Indiana Limestone (along with Missouri Red Granite) in its collegiate gothic architecture. The majority of Indiana University (Bloomington Campus) was constructed out of limestone. In addition, many buildings on the north side of Michigan State University use Indiana limestone. Both structures of the Kenosha County Courthouse and Jail in Kenosha, Wisconsin were built out of the limestone. The rock was used as far north as the Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton.
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