long-term investment

Our entrance steps are 100-year-old marble recycled from the State House in Providence, Rhode Island.

The Rhode Island State House is constructed of 327,000 cubic feet (9,300 m3) of white Georgia marble. (Wikipedia)

Designed by the iconic architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, its construction spanned from 1895 to 1904. The building has gone through a major renovation in the late 1990s and this is why part of its symbolic marble exterior steps ended up at Merri! We hope all other marble siblings ended up re-purposed somewhere in the world . . . speaking of a really long-term investment.