At local gift shop hometown girl you can buy your own marble step cleaning kit the kit includes a pumice stone bag of bon ami powder cleanser and instructions although you can easily assemble your own at any well stocked hardware store.
Baltimore marble stoops.
The story behind baltimore s marble stoops i have always heard about the tradition of baltimoreans scrubbing their marble steps but never understood it.
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Of course you have probably seen non marble steps in and around baltimore.
These stoops are affordable choices to replace marble steps that have not weathered the.
Petrucci s building supply company was the first to manufacture and introduce prefab steps to the baltimore in 1952.
West baltimore is a huge section of the city notorious for violent and other drug related crime but also for its unique culture endless streets of old baltimore rowhouses with their marble stoops and sprawling parklands.
Baltimore s marble stoops are iconic and we re damn lucky to get our hands on these insanely heavy pieces of history.
Stoops drivin around baltimore with peter we cruise into some downpressed neighborhoods sandtown winchester.
We ve got just about every shape and size you can imagine.
Tuesday december 15 2009.
The use of marble for steps is due to the presence of high quality white marble in cockeysville a town 17 miles north of baltimore s inner harbor by highway.
Places where people weren t doin much i guess i only say downpressed because they didn t look too happy about it.
Lingering in the heat sweaty concrete.
The front marble steps or stoops as they are known are part of the tradition and culture of baltimore.
These steps are made from brick or prefabricated concrete.
In addition to the steps the windows and doorframes are also accented with marble trim on this strip.
All that s missing is some bon ami a brush and some elbow grease.
The marble found there is of such quality that it was preferred over the products of the much closer potomac marble quarries for many public structures in washington d c including the.
In this blog i will explore how and why marble stoops developed in and around baltimore.