The Statue of Liberty famously proclaims, “Give me your tired, your poor,” and so on. Less famously, it’s builders asked quarries along the Connecticut shoreline to give them their pink granite rock — ...

Heritage Plaza stands out from Houston’s skyline, with its stepped granite top that rises above the steel and glass tower like a Mayan pyramid. But though its exterior nods toward the past, a new ...

MARBLE FALLS -- Somebody's always messing with Texas. Historians said the Yellow Rose of Texas was not a reference to the flora of San Jacinto, then they said William Travis probably didn't really ...