As part of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, thousands of historic buildings, districts and structures have ...

The Quincy Quarry and Granite Workers Museum is located at 20 Quarry Hills Drive in Quincy, just below the Granite Links golf course and clubhouse. The phone number is 617-472-1322.

Tom Bonomi of the Quincy Quarry and Granite Workers Museum, right, instructs him how to turn the chisel as he hits it, which makes it go deeper. Saturday, May 4, 2024.

Tom Bonomi, of Quincy, knew immediately what the mysterious quarry ruins were: a cabin built in the 1930s and a post-war social club in the 1950s.

Once known as a diving death zone, the Quincy Quarries are now a technicolor landscape. And that toxic trash island out in Boston Harbor? It's now a stretch of open meadows.

A Milton Victorian rests on stones likely cut from nearby quarries in Quincy, and a Rockport Colonial rests on stone from a quarry in that community. By Jon Gorey Globe Correspondent, Updated ...