That the Indiana Limestone industry employs stone cutters and carvers whose skills in working limestone into complex shapes and into art forms remain world class?
• For more information on Limestone, Inc. and how to specify cut Indiana limestone, download the PDF file. • Indiana Limestone is a natural product formed some 300 million years ago in the shallow seas that covered southern Indiana. This Mississippian-age grainstone has a very uniform texture and grade, and it has gained world-wide acceptance as a premier dimension stone. Indiana Limestone weathers naturally over time and the stone’s color mellows and lends into a pleasing natural patina. The appearance of Indiana Limestone actually improves with age. Indiana Limestone is a freestone, which means that it exhibits no preferential direction of splitting and can, therefore, be cut and carved in an almost limitless variety of shapes and sizes. This property allows the stone to be planed, turned on a lathe, sawed, and hand worked to match the requirements of the most demanding architectural designs. Indiana Limestone exhibits three colors: gray, buff, and variegated, which includes patterns
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