Seven stories tall, a 210-foot office building and adjacent hardscape combine a multivariate of size, shape and configuration worthy of aesthetically pleasing today’s nobility. Stone and masonry products were sourced from 12 states and fabricated in two countries and three states. Located in Dallas, TX, the Old Parkland North Campus features variegated limestone from Indiana, extracted from an adjacent quarry to one that more than 90 years ago produced the stone for the facade of the Empire State Building. Limestone was used extensively — along with cubic granite, sculpted marble, natural boulders, genuine handmade brick and GFRC panels – to adorn the office building, parking garage, site work, adjacent specialty features and the massive boulder artwork.

Dee Brown, Inc. of Richardson, TX, was contracted to furnish and install the stone and masonry packages on this project. Dee Brown, Inc. is a Nationally Accredited Natural Stone Installation Contractor through the Natural Stone Institute of America. “Architecturally, the campus is built in keeping with Jeffersonian Architecture and utilizes handmade wood-mold brick and Indiana limestone,” said Rob Barnes III, president and CEO of Dee Brown, Inc. “Designed by Craig Hamilton of London, it has been designed to a 100-year-old building standard. The first time I saw the preliminary design, I felt the project needed to be natural stone. Given market forces in June 2017, our knowledge of cost, and of life cycle data between natural stone and cast stone, we presented an option to provide Indiana limestone in lieu of cast stone. To our good fortune, the initial cost to substitute was negligible, and the life cycle cost of natural stone is not comparable — it far exceeds its substitute. Once provided the opportunity to present to the owner; the decision was made to move to natural material. The new North Campus building would be clad with Indiana limestone and be a complement to the Indiana limestone recently restored on the original campus building constructed in 1894.”