Offices

Some of the most intact buildings on the West Rutland site involve the old administrative buildings of the Sheldon Marble Co., including the Company Store and Coping Shop that are used for program by the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center today as well as the Carpentry Shed and no longer standing office building.

Coping Shop and corners of the Company Store and Old Mill (1892)

Company Store

The H.H. Brown Company Store was built in 1855 and made of marble. It remained the cooperative store through changes in management until 1922, after which it was used for storage.

Coping Shop

The Coping Shop was built around 1890 made of stone with a tar and gravel roof.

Office

The Sheldon Marble Co.'s office was a one and a half story mansard roof building headed by a hot air furnace and lighted by electricity in 1892, though it no longer stands.

Company Store now used as Carving Studio main building (Puckhaber 2025)

Coping Shop now used as studio and gallery space (Puckhaber 2025)

Graffiti from quarry workers in the early 1900s inside the Coping Shop's gallery space (Puckhaber 2025)

Carpentry Shed

In addition to the Company Store and Coping Shop, one of the few remaining buildings is the Carpentry Shed on the southern end of the site; now used for storage by the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center.

Carpentry Shed (Puckhaber 2025)

Photograph of Carpentry Shed and Company Store (1892) before gantry crane

Back of Carpentry Shed (Puckhaber 2025)

References

"General Condition of the Sheldon Marble Co.'s Property as leased by the Vermont Marble Co. 1892." Vermont Marble Co. Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, West Rutland, VT.

Georeferenced imagery. Google Earth. "Aerial Imagery." Color imagery, 2025. Google. 2025.

Miglorie, Catherine. Vermont’s Marble Industry. Arcadia Publishing, 2013.

Non-georeferenced imagery. Vermont Imagery. "1962 Aerial Imagery." Black and white imagery, 2019. Vermont Center for Geographic Information. 2025. https://vcgi.vermont.gov/data-release/1962-aerial-imagery-now-available-statewide-non-georeferenced.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from West Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont. Sanborn Map Company, Aug, 1910. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn08959_001/.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from West Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont. Sanborn Map Company, Jan, 1922. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn08959_002/.

State Plane. Vermont Imagery. "VT 1974-1992." Black and white imagery, 1974-1992. Vermont Open Geodata Portal. 2025. https://geodata.vermont.gov/pages/imagery?_gl=1*i137yy*_ga*NjU1NjE1MDQ4LjE3NDY5OTMwMDQ.*_ga_V9WQH77KLW*czE3NTMzNzUxODUkbzMxJGcxJHQxNzUzMzc1MjQ4JGo1OCRsMCRoMA.

State Plane. Vermont Imagery. "VT 1994-2000." Black and white imagery, 1994-2000. Vermont Open Geodata Portal. 2025. https://geodata.vermont.gov/pages/imagery?_gl=1*i137yy*_ga*NjU1NjE1MDQ4LjE3NDY5OTMwMDQ.*_ga_V9WQH77KLW*czE3NTMzNzUxODUkbzMxJGcxJHQxNzUzMzc1MjQ4JGo1OCRsMCRoMA.

Vermont Marble Company - Its Past and Future. Proctor, VT: Vermont Marble Co., 1920. Proctoriana Collection. Vermont Historical Society Leahy Library, Barre, VT.

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