Brent and I cannot imagine a more fitting location for our business than on the site of the original Vermont Marble Company — once the largest marble company in the world. Aside from being as close as we are to a vast supply of the wonderful natural resource of marble, working in a place with so much history is tremendously inspiring. Our stone fabrication facility is located in the same complex—actually the same building — where many historic and nationally important stone fabrications have taken place — including the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the pillars of the Supreme Court, The Jefferson Memorial, and many elements of the White House itself.

We take much pride in the historic and priceless Vermont Marble Company archive that we have carefully acquired over the thirty-plus years since the inception of the Proctor Marble Company. It contains documents and objects dating back to 1869 when the company was then known as the historic Sutherland Falls Marble Company and as late as the company’s final years in the 1980s.

The archive includes the research we were hired to complete of the White House for the movie “White House Down” which contains actual White House renovation blueprints, collectible books, and documentation of DC monuments. Much of the archive was passed down through former marble company colleagues.

We continue to build our historical archive with records of our own Proctor Marble Company restoration projects of historic significance, such as the extensive research we performed ahead of our work on the Randolph Hearst Neptune Pool restoration at the Hearst Castle in California, and our research on the famous racehorse Secretariat, a hand-carved stone inscription project we completed at the Belmont Race Track in Elmont, New York.

— June Tess Wilson