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Woolery Stone Company

historic industrial complex in Bloomington, Indiana, USA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ24693724 ↗
Source-derived summary

Woolery Stone Company is a historic limestone quarry and manufacturing complex located at Bloomington, Indiana. The property includes a variety of buildings, structures, and objects associated with the production of dimensional limestone. These include the limestone faced International Style headquarters building, metal mill office, machine shop, blacksmith shop, limestone storage structure, limestone walls, and the grand scale all metal mill building.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Woolery, Stone and Company can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as historic industrial complex in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24693724. Authority coordinates are 39.139, -86.561. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Woolery Stone Company” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.