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STONE ARCHITECTURE
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STONE ARCHITECTURE. Style of construction using native stone quarried from the bluffs. Following the age of log buildings, stone architecture is said to have developed in Cornwall and other parts of Great Britain. It came to Dubuque by way of miners who moved through the Midwest in search of LEAD and copper.