We here at Minneapolis Granite
fabricate and install marble counters. Burnsville is one of
the Twin Cities areas that takes advantage of our services. We gave a brief
history of marble and marble counters, and now we’d like to add a bit more
detail to that history.
The Ancient Greeks built much of
their civilization on marble and marble counters. Greece contains the largest
and widest of varieties of marble found in the world. After awhile, the rest of
the world caught on to the Greeks’ beautiful marble-making abilities and
started importing Greek marble to create their own monuments, statues,
buildings and marble counters. At first, white marble was the most popular, but
soon enough the colored marble counters caught on.
White Pentelicon marble is known
as some of the world’s purest and most precious marble, and it is quarried in
the Penteli mountain region just north of Athens. It is also known as “Marmo
Pentelico” or “Marmo Greco Fino.” The columns at the temple at Artemis at
Ephesus (which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World) are made of
multicolored marble.
Minneapolis Granite takes a great
deal of pride in our ability to fabricate and install marble and marble
counters in any Burnsville home. Granted, we don’t get our marble counters from
the Penteli mountains, but the marble we use for our marble counters is the
finest quality we can get our hands on. We pass that quality onto our Burnsville
customers to help make their homes a thing of beauty.
When you are ready to have marble
counters installed in your Burnsville home, just give us a call at (612)
822-3135 or contact us online. We’ll be happy to answer any questions you may
have about marble counters in Burnsville!
