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Where Can You Find Vermont Marble? In All 50 States: The unassuming central Vermont town of Proctor is home to the Vermont Marble Company and its compelling Vermont Marble Exhibit. Visitors see and learn more about this glistening, desirable stone at here than anywhere else. Learn that Vermont marble graces thousands and thousands of structures throughout all 50 states, including the Washington DC’s Supreme Court Building and Jefferson Memorial and many thousands of headstones in our national cemeteries, including Arlington National Cemetery. And visitors can find out which buildings in their home town in the Exhibit’s archives.
Vermont Marble Exhibit—One
of Vermont’s Treasures:
It has no fancy brochure. No hyperbole. No snooty docents. No
disarming signs threaten “Keep Out.” Vermont Marble
Exhibit will awe and inspire, teach and surprise. Meet a
triceratops. Watch marble being carved into an eternal
countenance. Spelunk in a spooky faux cave. Research long-lost
relatives. Do your Christmas shopping. Proctor, near Rutland,
has been home to Vermont Marble Company for nearly a century.
This museum—decidedly off the beaten track—will enthrall
folks of all ages with something to titillate their psyche, sense
and intellect. Discover one of New England’s truest treasures—Vermont
Marble Exhibit.
Architects and Interior Designers Alert—Glorious, Glistening and Gorgeous. Professionals agree: stone in residential and commercial applications provide a clean, modern look combined with incredible durability. Vermont Marble Exhibit provides not only several hours’ enjoyable learning experience, but architects and interior designers can mix a little business with their pleasure, too. The Exhibit’s bath displays glistening Vermont Montclair Danby Marble for floor tiles and counter tops. The walls are Vermont Verde Marble—a serpentine marble with hardness resembling granite. And these marbles and many granites are available for custom orders, too—direct ‘from the factory.’ No other material can surpass the timeless elegance and durability of marble or granite counter tops and floors. Vermont marble? Architects and designers in all 50 states have been using it for generations.
Earth Alive and Raymond, too! Imagine looking back in time to when dinosaurs
walked the earth and volcanoes spewed millions of tons of molten
lava. This world is recreated at Vermont Marble Exhibit.
Beautiful minerals, an eerily-lit faux cave, fossils and
Raymond, the “articulated” remains of a real triceratops,
preserved forever as a resin casting. Such scientific, geological
and paleontological delights await the ardent student, curious
grandmother or parent wishing to help his children learn geology
by example. The Exhibit, a wonderful assembly of compelling
and mesmerizing displays, is a perfect school trip, tour group
excursion, family day trip or something out of the ordinary for
anyone who enjoys a wide variety of visual stimulation and learning.
And, for school trips and bus tours, Dr. Rock will make a special
appearance to answer questions and provide some great insights.
Rock on!
Get Stoned at Vermont Marble
Exhibit. Just imagine
being hundreds of feet below the surface of the earth in a marble
quarry. Tremendous blocks of the stone—weighing many tons
each—are seemingly effortlessly carried aloft by ropes,
soon to be Corinthian columns or statuary gracing a magnificent
building somewhere. Such intoxicating and thrilling scenes, while
imaginary here, can be viewed through the eyes of the Vermont
Marble Company’s
photographer, who captured such scenes from 1890 to 1935. View
hundreds of pieces of marble from all over the world—in
a tremendous array of colors and with an endless varieties of
veining, including actual fossils within the stone itself.
Simply Marble-ous Gifts: Most museum gift shops sell key chains and trinkets—the
kinds of gifts which often are relegated to the junk drawer,
or worse, the trash. At Vermont Marble Exhibit, not only
are the gifts unusual, they are truly enduring—in the truest
sense of the word—they are stone. Whether looking for a
decorative accent for one’s own home or office
or an unusual, thoughtful and long-lasting gift, this is the
place to find it. Marble and stone products from around the world
are sold here—gifts which command attention and are guaranteed
not to end up in some drawer full of flotsam and jetsam. And,
even en route to the Exhibit’s parking lot, the Outdoor
Marble Market offers even more browse-worthy merchandise—
beautiful marble and stone from around the world, for gifts or
for one’s
home, garden or office. Selections can be cut to size, too (for
a nominal fee).
A Must-See for Vermont Visitors: A bit off the beaten path, on Proctor’s Main Street, a weird and wonderful entry ushers Vermont Marble Exhibit visitors towards the marble entry walk. This entry, comprising several gargantuan multi-ton blocks of marble, are prelude to hours of discovery within. This tantalizing museum, offering a surfeit of exhibits—from geological to aesthetic, intellectual to artistic—will enthrall, delight and educate visitors of every age and orientation. Visitors anticipating a short visit will surprise themselves to learn they have whiled away several hours— and didn’t even know it. A dream for teachers, an exciting voyage of discovery for parents and grandparents and a playhouse of learning for the little ones, the Exhibit awaits your discovery.
