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Select the Perfect Limestone
for Your Project

Limestone has a wide variety of unique and beneficial properties and characteristics that make it the perfect building material for a wide variety of buildings and projects, from modern monuments to traditional buildings. Indiana Cut Stone offers premier Indiana limestone in a variety of colors, textures, finishes and grades to suit your project.

Buff

The buff color Indiana limestone ranges from a light creamy shade to a brownish buff.

Variegated

The variegated color Indiana limestone is mix of gray and buff colors with a variety of tones in between. There can be a little or a lot of variation from work piece to work piece within variegated color stone.

Gray

The gray color Indiana limestone ranges from a light silvery gray to shades of bluish gray.

Limestone Textures

Sandblasted

Sandblasted limestone is a texture that is commonly used to match newly installed limestone materials with older limestone encountered during a restoration project. The finish can be applied to all aspects of newly installed material on commercial and residential projects as well.

Smooth

The least textural of the standard finishes and presents minimum surface interruption. A smooth finish is a very popular limestone finish. Terms associated with a smooth finish are often called out as planer, honed, grinder, machine, bugged or circular sanded.

Split Faced

This finish is a rough, uneven, concave-convex finish applied to Indiana limestone. The rough natural appearance creates maximum light and shadow contrast. Split faced limestone is typically used for residential and commercial buildings alike on both interior and exterior surfaces to emphasize horizontal lines and create a massive appearance.

Limestone Grades & Classifications

The Indiana Limestone Institute grade classifications
are determined by how fine or coarse the grain particles
and other natural characteristics that comprise the limestone.

The structural soundness of each classification
of limestone is essentially identical.

Select

The texture of select grade limestone is fine to average-grained, with a controlled minimum of unique features such as fossils or streaks.

Standard

Standard grade limestone has a fine to moderately large-grained texture, and permits an average amount distinguishing features.

Rustic

Rustic grade limestone is a fine to very coarse-grained stone and may contain an above-average amount of unique visual elements.

Variegated

Variegated grade limestone is composed of an unselected mixture of grades 1 through 3 and may appear in both buff and gray colors.

Choosing the Right Stone

To achieve the best possible color match, we recommend that all stone for a project be supplied from a single quarry and our clients follow ILIA guidelines for stone selection