written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . october 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message coldspring type privately owned industry memorialization design & architectural residential material supply tooling jetty rip rap aggregate construction building materials headquarters cold spring minnesota area served north america key people pat alexander chairman & ceo ; john mattke president & coo ; greg flint vice president of operations george schnepf cfo ; dan rea senior vp of sales and marketing mark mac cariveau executive vp of corporate support products granite and limestone manufactured to specifications bronze memorials granite memorials bronze signage custom diamond tooling blocks private estates columbariums community mausoleums number of employees approximately 900 website coldspring coldspring is a quarrier and fabricator of granite and other natural stone and a bronze manufacturing company in the united states . 1 coldspring serves the memorials market the design and architectural market and distributes slabs for the residential market industrial products raw quarry blocks and diamond tools . 2 contents 1 history 2 products and industries served 3 sustainability initiatives 4 awards and recognition 5 notable projects 6 references 7 external links history edit in 1898 scottish stonecutter henry nair alexander founded the rockville granite company . during this last decade of the nineteenth century alexander joined with a group of men from rockville minnesota to lease land with an outcropping of granite . alexander died in 1913 his sons patrick h. and john continued the company . in 1920 the sons moved the company five miles away from rockville to the town of cold spring minnesota . this move built upon henry s single quarry creating the cold spring granite company . in recent years the company s offerings expanded and in 2013 the company name was changed to coldspring . 3 4 5 both patrick h. and john expanded the business with their plan which resulted in the company becoming the largest quarrier in the country by 1930 . products and industries served edit coldspring has quarries and works located in new york minnesota south dakota texas california and canada . color choices include academy black agate azalea carnelian charcoal black diamond pink fredericksburg red iridian kasota valley limestone lac du bonnet lake placid blue lake superior green mesabi black mountain green prairie brown rainbow rockville beige rockville white royal sable sierra white sunset beige sunset red texas pearl texas pink and texas red . 6 coldspring s stone products serve for applications such as commercial interiors and exteriors landscaping hardscaping civic memorials and national monuments . coldspring distributes slabs for the residential market as well as industrial products raw quarry blocks jetty rip rap and diamond tools . coldspring also serves cemeteries and memorial companies . memorial products include bronze on granite markers drilled granite bases columbarium structures granite benches cremation memorials pillars and boulders standard and custom designed upright monuments grass markers slants and bevels signs bronze statuary as well as other granite and bronze products . further coldspring provides mausoleum design and construction for private estates and community mausoleums . coldspring also provides construction services in the cemetery from design through installation . services include pre construction master site planning schematic conceptual design design development construction documents virtual design construction bim estimating and pro formas building delivery solutions general construction design build cost plus program management partnering and site work civil engineering and permitting excavation grading and landscaping and site infrastructure . 7 sustainability initiatives edit in december 2007 the construction of a new corporate headquarters together with consolidated fabrication facilities in cold spring minnesota . awarded leed gold certification from the u.s. green building council usgbc in 2008 the building has 31 percent less square footage than the former building . 8 9 coldspring is a member of the natural stone council nsc and president and coo john mattke is past chairman of the nsc s committee on sustainability which has partnered with the university of tennessee s center for clean products in 2007 to provide research and define the environmental footprint of stone . for the center s natural stone industry environmental benchmarking study data was captured from both quarry and processing operations to characterize the environmental profile of the natural stone industry . findings spurred continuing research on key issues ranging from water reclamation and consumption efficiency identification of market niches and alternative uses for scrap stone to the potential establishment of a corporate environmental policy for quarry closure ; thereby compelling the development of industry best practices life cycle datasets and material fact sheets . 10 awards and recognition edit coldspring has been awarded the following honors international masonry institute 11 gold trowel award 2001 award of merit commercial exterior marble institute of america 12 franklin delano roosevelt memorial washington d.c. 2002 special pinnacle award for craftsmanship & design marble institute of america minneapolis beautiful project & ten sculpture 13 2005 special pinnacle award marble institute of america stone memorial 14 tucker award city garden in st. louis mo 15 pinnacle award lakewood cemetery garden mausoleum in minneapolis mn . 16 notable projects edit coldspring has contributed to the following projects franklin delano roosevelt memorial in washington d.c. 17 18 the korean war memorial in washington d.c. 19 the national japanese american memorial in washington d.c. 20 the notre dame hesburgh library touchdown jesus mural in south bend indiana 21 the bank of america in san francisco california 22 the national d day memorial in bedford virginia 23 the center for the intrepid in san antonio texas 24 and the martin luther king jr. memorial in washington d.c. references edit 1 cold spring granite 2 stone world a century of enduring beauty copyright 2002 cold spring granite company . pages viii ix 3 funding universe 4 stearns county minnesota . 5 coldspring 6 stone world 7 masonry construction online 8 international surface fabricators association 9 masonry construction online 10 masonry construction online 11 marble institute of america marble institute of america 12 marble institute of america 13 marble institute of america 14 15 16 smithsonian institution 17 washington building congress 18 u.s. army corps of engineers 19 stone world magazine july 2002 20 notre dame library archives 21 cbs 47 tv 11 may 2011 22 usda forest services 2001 23 buildings magazine october 2008 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title coldspring company & oldid 733999132 categories quarries in the united statescompanies based in minnesotagranite companieshidden categories articles with a promotional tone from october 2013all articles with a promotional tonepages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was 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