The Three Stone State
Although New Hampshire is known as the Granite State, its next door neighbor Vermont has three official state rocks: granite, slate, and marble. All three are present in Washington, DC's buildings and monuments. The Jefferson memorial is made of Vermont's marble, as is the Supreme Court building, the District of Columbia's World War Memorial, and the Arlington Memorial. Vermont slate was used for the historic Blair House on Lafayette Square. Union Station was the first building in Washington to be clad in Vermont's famous white granite, but it is also found at the Museum of Natural History and at the base of the General Sherman monument.
Vermont's white granite was recently chosen to re-face the Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris France.
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