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A family accquaintance is a stone mason. He is an ex-seal and traveled to Italy and basically apprenticed under and old stone mason for several years. It is a lost art nowadays, esp in USA where modern bulidings are not but with such materials. A new church - metal crap with maybe some psuedo stone made of concrete etc... The man power and the raw materials are just cost prohibitive for many. Brick veneer homes are not in the same league as what was done in the past. Think of the ancient Romans and what they accomplished. Was not matched for centuries afterward.
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