SOURCES

  • Archival documents from the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.
  • Archival documents from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.
  • Architectural Granite, National Building Granite Quarries Association, Boston, Mass. No. 1 of the Granite Series, 3rd edition, 1931.
  • Carhart, Grace, M. A Study of the Peekskill granite and associated rocks. Master’s thesis, Columbia University, 1925.
  • Cutting Stone for a Cathedral, Stone magazine, Vol. XLVII, No. 4, April, 1926, pp.231-232.
  • Eckel, Edwin C. The Quarry Industry in Southeastern New York, McGuire, Thomas F., 1900. pp. 163-164.
  • Ellis, William. The Mohegan Granite Quarries. Unpublished essay, circa 1970.
  • Evening Star
  • Fluhr, Thomas. W. The Golden Granite Near Peekskill, Rocks and Minerals, Vol 6, 1931, pp. 98-100.
  • Granite Quarries, Scientific American Supplement, 1906, Vol, LXI, No. 1574.
  • Grenci & Ellis brochure, 1930s.
  • Groeling, Dorothy. Granite for St. John’s Cathedral Carefully Cut from Local Quarry, North County News, 1978.
  • Groeling, Dorothy. Quarrying in Yorktown. The Westchester Historian, Vol. 54, No. 2, Spring, 1978 pp. 38-40.
  • Highland Democrat
  • Lescarboura, Austin C. Endurance Cut from the Hillside, Scientific American, Vol. 147, No. 5, November, 1932, pp.290-291.
  • McQuire, Thomas F. A Guide to the Geology of Westchester County New York, 1997.
  • Modern Methods Used to Facilitate Stone Work on Cathedral, Stone magazine, October, 1926, Vol. XLVII, No, 10.
  • Morrill, Charles. Grenci, Ellis and the Mellow Golden Granite of Mohegan Lake, North County News, March 4-10, 1981.
  • New York State Museum Bulletins, 1900, 1916, 1918.
  • Progress of Construction on the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, The Engineering Record, January 12, 1909.
  • Skerrett, Robert G. Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Compressed Air Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 11, February, 1926, pp.1518-1523.
  • Stone, Karen. Sheet Scaling in Mohansic Granite, Master’s thesis for Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, 2014.
  • The Yorktown Herald
  • Town of Yorktown land records and Town Board meeting minutes.
  • Westchester County land records.

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