Tennessee Pink Marble

Tennessee pink marble is a kind of pink marble quarried in united states.

Tennessee pink marble.

The use of tennessee marble declined after world war ii when cheaper building materials became widely available. Tennessee pink marble is famous all over the world. As the premier showroom for tennessee pink marble candoro is a featured stop on this self guided tour of knoxville. Tennessee marble is abundant but only found here in east tennessee.

Pink marble is more than pretty especially when you pay attention to it in knoxville. While tennessee marble is not true marble its crystalline nature lends it a strong resemblance to marble especially when polished. We readily keep varieties of tennessee pink quaker gray cedar champlain black and other domestic stones at our headquarters in friendsville tn. While pink is the most well known tennessee marble color the stone also occurs in gray dark brown cedar and variegated shades.

Tennessee pink marble is featured on the facade of the knoxville museum of art. The stone occurs in belts of ordovician period rocks known as the holston formation and is quarried primarily in knox blount loudon union and hawkins counties. Photo courtesy of the knoxville museum of art.