brownstone
Sign in to savethumb|300x300px|Brownstones in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City 300px|thumb|Biking among brownstones in Park Slope, Brooklyn Brownstone is a brown Triassic–Jurassic sandstone that was historically a popular building material. The term is also used in the United States and Canada to refer to a townhouse clad in this or any other aesthetically similar material.
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Types
- Apostle Island brownstone
- Hummelstown brownstone
- Portland brownstone
- New Jersey brownstone
- South Wales brownstone
- Use
- In urban private residences
- In colonial country homes
- In tombstones
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|300x300px|Brownstones in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City 300px|thumb|Biking among brownstones in Park Slope, Brooklyn Brownstone is a brown Triassic–Jurassic sandstone that was historically a popular building material. The term is also used in the United States and Canada to refer to a townhouse clad in this or any other aesthetically similar material.
Brownstone was a popular building material because it is unusually easy to quarry and carve; these qualities also make structures clad in it susceptible to weathering and damage over time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “brownstone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.