Phenix Marble

Missouri stone.
Cut again.

Napoleon Gray and Fleuri from the historic quarry at Phenix — stocked on our floor in Ottumwa and fabricated by Millennium.

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1925 Phenix Marble Company advertisement — Phenix Marble Company · 1925

The quarry

Abandoned for a century. Producing again.

In 1884, railroad blasting in Greene County, Missouri exposed the stone deposit that would become Phenix Marble. By 1905, polished marble from the quarry was being shipped nationwide for use in banks, hotels, museums, and public buildings.

Napoleon Gray became one of its signature stones, appearing in the trading room of the New York Stock Exchange and the entrance of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. The Depression eventually closed the quarry, and with imported European marble entering the American market after the war, Phenix remained quiet for generations.

In 2016, Springfield-based Conco Companies revived the Phenix Marble name and began cutting new blocks from the same historic quarry. The stone soon returned to prominent projects, including restoration work at the Missouri State Capitol.

Today, we stock Napoleon and Fleuri in Ottumwa. The slabs on our floor come from that reopened Missouri quarry, and we fabricate and install them right here in Iowa.

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