Tennesee Pink Marble

Today the building is undergoing extensive renovation thanks to the aslan foundation.

Tennesee pink marble.

Built in 1923 the center s main building is the former showroom and office of the candoro marble works an historic east tennessee company that was at one time the largest producer of tennessee pink marble in the u s. Owned by monica gawet the company is the only active quarrier of tennessee marble in the u s. We readily keep varieties of tennessee pink quaker gray cedar champlain black and other domestic stones at our headquarters in friendsville tn. Tennessee pink marble is a kind of pink marble quarried in united states.

The stone occurs in belts of ordovician period rocks known as the holston formation and is quarried primarily in knox blount loudon union and hawkins counties. Founded in july 1993 the tennessee marble company is a family business that owns and operates four quarries in tennessee as well as the seasonally operated champlain black quarry in isle lamotte vt. The first operating tennessee marble quarry was near rogersville tn. We also quarry many other varieties of marble including verde antique quaker gray and more.

While tennessee marble is not true marble its crystalline nature lends it a strong resemblance to marble especially when polished. The stone itself has a long standing history and tennessee marble company which currently has 30. We hope that it will reopen in 2020. Off white pink and dark red limestone has been quarried from beds and lenses within the holston formation in the valley and ridge physiographic province of the appalacians of eastern tennessee since1838.

The use of tennessee marble declined after world war ii when cheaper building materials became widely available. Tennessee marble is abundant but only found here in east tennessee. While pink is the most well known tennessee marble color the stone also occurs in gray dark brown cedar and variegated shades. This stone is especially good for building stone countertops sinks monuments pool coping sills ornamental stone interior exterior wall floor paving and other design projects.