Winona Natural Thin Stone Veneer

Winona is a dimensional style thin cut split face limestone veneer.  The stone shows the interior or what is called the split face of natural Wisconsin limestone.  Winona is produced slightly differently than our other split face dimensional stones as it is extracted from a layered shelf rock quarry.  Instead of the stone being sawed out in large blocks, the slabs used to create Winona are peeled up layer by layer.  An excavator pushes its forks between the layers to extract them.  Because Winona comes from a shelf rock quarry, the stone has some occasional mineral staining due to the natural layering of the quarry.  Winona and other shelf rock limestones are sometimes referred to as “clean split” which is short for dimensional clean split limestone.