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22|April 2020
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Natural Stone Institute Member Company
Tennessee Marble Company Friendsville, Tennessee Stone Fabricator
Other Project Team Members
Hartman-Cox Architects
Architect
Silvara Stone Company
Stone Quarrier/Supplier/Fabricator
Polycor
Stone Supplier
Johnson & Galyon Construction Howard Masonry
Stone Installers
Stone
Indiana limestone Crab Orchard sandstone
Judges Comments:
Award of Excellence–Commercial Exterior
Church Street
United Methodist Church Expansion
Knoxville, Tennessee
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riginally designed by the New York firm of John
Russell Pope with the help of local architect Charles Barber of Barber McMurry Architects, Church Street United Methodist Church was built in 1930-31 by Worsham Brothers, with TL Yon as the stone mason.
Between 1945 and 1956, the stained-glass win- dows designed by the Charles Connick Studio of Boston, Massachusetts were installed in the nave of the church. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and de- scribed as “one of the most important church build- ings in the South,” the 1931 CSUMC building is a unique structure that needed expansion, renova- tion, and renewal to further
An excellent example of precisely how to utilize stone in a modern addition to a historic core structure. Adding hand carved stone decorative matching pieces was the seamless icing on the cake.
Award of Excellence
its continued service to the church congregation and community at large.
The exterior envelope of the original build- ing was clad in sand- stone and trimmed in limestone and had to be matched. Tennessee Marble Company was rec- ommended to the general contractor because of their reputation.
Once selected, they were responsible for sourcing, fabricating, and finishing the limestone for the proj- ect that took over a year and a half to fabricate from block to crate. In an early examination of the current building and design de- tails, they provided helpful feedback for the limestone coursing on the quoined window surround to line up perfectly with the sandstone coursing, as does the origi- nal building.
Tennessee Marble Co. was also asked to hand carve and match a thistle detail that required site visits, photography, hand drawing, and ultimately the skilled craftsmanship of their master carver. There were hundreds of carved arch pieces, many of which were on a radial wall, that also had tapered arch bot- tom pieces. This detail required advanced pro- gramming of their 5 axis CNC machine, then the handiwork of their master carver and his apprentice, and finally the perfect sand- blast combination.
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