Quote Originally Posted by Johnnny5 View Post
Anyone consider how difficult it was to move 100's of tons of cut stone in the 19th and early 20th Century ?

The vast majority of Michigan's mitten is covered in 100's of feet of sand, boulders and rubble left over from the glaciers. With the exception of areas along the Ohio border we simply do not have the material resources to build homes out of cut stone.
row houses and brownstones are brick, not cut stone