Masonry Magazine September 1978 Page. 32
'You set stone with your hands and your heart!'
Rich Jarboe, a masonry craftsman for 20 years, knows that good stonemasonry requires both skills and commitment: "It takes a lot of pride to set stone and marble-to do it right. It's in your heart. It's in your hands. It's what I like to do."
The work that he and other stone masons did on the East Building, an addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., shows why: "I brought my whole family here and took them through a two-hour tour of this whole place. When I walk away from this job, I'll be proud of it. I'll stand out there in the street and take a look at it. It's always going to be here for me and my family to see."
People with the kind of pride that Rich Jarboe has in his skills, and the kind of love that he has for the materials he works with ("It's natural stone. It's beautiful. It's easy to take care of.") are the foundation and strength of the masonry system of building.
Masonry craftsmen work with the finest materials ever devised for building-brick, block, stone, marble, tile, terrazzo, mosaics and plaster. Their skills match the materials. Together they create a building system that is beautiful, permanent, requires little maintenance, provides excellent fire protection, has great structural capabilities, is remarkably flexible, helps make buildings more thermally efficient, and is economical.
There are thousands of reasons why your next building should be masonry. Rich Jarboe is one of them.
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