Choose a Quality and Color of Granite for a Mausoleum, Memorial, Monument or Headstone
From top to bottom, the best mausoleums are made with granite.
You can choose from mausoleums and monuments built from black colored granite, blue pearl colored granite, grey colored granite, mahogany colored granite, red colored granite, rose colored granite and white colored granite.
- Has high quartz content, making it hard, strong, and durable.
- Is non-porous to resist moisture getting into the walls and weakening the structure.
- Resists cracking and crumbling by dampening vibrations from any ground movement.
- It has a smooth, even surface with no cracks, pits, or bumps.
- Has unique colors and vibrant patterns.
- Comes from overseas quarries in places like China (even offered by some disreputable companies here in the United States)
- Has a lower quartz content, making it softer and less durable.
- Can be porous, letting damaging moisture in.
- Often has uneven, cracked, pitted surfaces.
- Appearance is uninteresting and dull.
How Rome Monument Crafts Personalized Custom Mausoleums And Headstones
Click here to view pictures of different granite colors you can choose from for a mausoleum, memorial, monument or headstone.
The quality of granite for a mausoleum or monument is also important. Different quarries yield different mineral compositions in the stones, accounting for variations in durability and color.
High Quality Granite Mausoleum Design and Construction Overview
Learn More About The High Quality Granite Used By Rome Monument To Design And Construct Monuments And Mausoleums
The composition of Rome Monument genuine Rock of Ages granite is high in quartz and feldspar, making it more durable than many other varieties of granite.
The quarries we use in the United States, Canada, and Africa are rigorously selected for this durability as well as the rich color of their stone.
It is true that many other granites exist and can be used for a memorial; however these other granites do not meet the quality standards of Rome Monument and Rock of Ages.
If you are interested in ordering a custom designed two crypt mausoleum for your spouse and you, or your parents, please consider talking with Vince Dioguardi of Rome Monument at 724-770-0100.
Granite is the perfect type of stone to use for cemetery markers and private family mausoleums, single crypt mausoleums and two crypt mausoleums.
If the granite is of high quality it will not deteriorate anytime soon. To learn more about granite, visit Wikipedia.
Rome Monument specializes in selling, designing and building mausoleums and monuments made from a wide variety of granite colors.
Granite is some of the oldest stone on earth. Born of ancient volcanoes, the stone is magma that has cooled slowly to form large rock crystals.
It is this crystal structure that gives the granite its unique luster and strength, Granite is the second hardest substance next to a diamond, making it the perfect material to preserve a memory.
Different quarries yield different mineral compositions in the stones, accounting for variations in durability and color.
The composition of Rome Monument genuine Rock of Ages granite is high in quartz and feldspar, making it more durable than many other varieties of granite.
The quarries we use in the United States, Canada, and Africa are rigorously selected for this durability as well as the rich color of their stone.
It is true that many other granites exist and can be used for a memorial; however these other granites do not meet the quality standards of Rome Monument and Rock of Ages.
Mausoleums, grave markers and gravestone made from the granite colors you will see in the Design Gallery come in a variety of shapes and sizes and incorporate artwork, etchings, engravings, bas relief, and sculpted elements in the design.