| 1880 |
Henry Alexander, a 32-year-old stonecutter, emigrates from Scotland |
| 1886 |
Henry and Maggie Milne marry and settle in Rockville, MN |
| 1890 |
Henry, with seven partners, form the Rockville Granite Company |
| 1899 |
Henry purchases shares to become sole owner of Rockville Granite |
| 1900 |
Rockville Granite is chosen to fabricate columns for the new Minnesota State Capitol rotunda |
| 1913 |
Henry dies and Maggie (wife) and Pat (son) take over management |
| 1917 |
Maggie dies, Pat enlists (WWI) and John (son) returns from college to run the business |
| 1919 |
Cold Spring, MN is surveyed to develop granite business with business community’s financial backing |
| 1920 |
Construction begins on plant in Cold Spring, focused on advanced production lines |
| 1924 |
Name is changed to Cold Spring Granite Company |
| 1927 |
John pursues monument business, opens Chicago office for new national sales manager |
| 1929 |
Expansion to four granite quarries and record sales: $1.3 million |
| 1931 |
The Great Depression: Chicago sales office closes |
| 1933 |
Revenues decline for the first time, reaching $500,000 |
| 1935 |
Memorialization division moves company into profits, achieving pre-depression levels by 1939 |
| 1942 |
Purchase of The John Clark Granite Company (Rockville MN) |
| 1942-45 |
Ship components built for the war effort |
| 1948 |
Pat dies and John becomes president |
| 1950-58 |
Rapid expansion: acquisition of Granite Mountain (Marble Falls, TX), Pyramid Granite Works, Royal Granite, Melrose Granite (St. Cloud, MN), Raymond Granite Company (Raymond, CA) and Lake Placid Granite (Au Sable Forks, NY) |
| 1953 |
Granit Bronz is launched to supply expanding national demand for memorials in memorial parks |
| 1954 |
Work begins on new Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs, CO) |
| 1962 |
Royal and Melrose divisions merge after an explosion and fire at Royal Granite |
| 1964 |
Completion of 11-story mural, University of Notre Dame campus |
| 1968 |
John becomes CEO and nephew Tom Alexander is named president |
| 1969-79 |
A second quarry in Milbank, SD opens to accommodate cladding (Carnelian granite) of nationally prominent skyscrapers, including Bank of America (San Francisco), McGraw Hill (New York), First National Bank (Boston) Coca Cola (Atlanta) and Hennepin County Government Center (Minneapolis) |
| 1970's |
Memorialization division introduces colored granite for memorials and (Mountain Red, Autumn Blaze, etc.) |
| 1976 |
John Alexander dies |
| 1983 |
Tom retires and cousin Patrick D. Alexander becomes president |
| 1985 |
Work begins on Franklin D. Roosevelt monument (Washington, DC) and Fredericksburg Red granite quarry (Fredericksburg, TX) is acquired |
| 1986 |
Granite West – new fabrication center two miles west of Cold Spring – opens |
| 1988 |
Capitol Marble and Granite Company (Granite Falls, TX) acquired |
| 1989 |
Cold Spring Granite controls 30 percent of domestic market |
| 1995 |
Korean War Memorial (Washington, DC) is dedicated; Lake Superior Green Quarry near Isabella, MN is opened
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| 1996 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt monument is dedicated (Washington, DC); Cold Spring Granite receives ISO certification; Patrick named CEO and Patrick J. Mitchell is named president and COO |
| 1997 |
MonuWest facility – designed for memorial fabrication – opens |
| 1998 |
Cold Spring Granite celebrates 100 years and first phase of new Granit Bronz foundry is completed |
| 1999 |
Recertification for ISO 9001 standard prompts continuous improvement efforts (lean manufacturing and time-based management techniques) |
| 2004 |
John H. Mattke is named president |
| 2005 |
Campus consolidation – with a commitment to green building – begins its final phase at corporate headquarters to include fabricating equipment upgrade, new maintenance and engineering facility and an open, efficient office environment that reduces physical imprint by 30% |
| 2008 |
The new corporate headquarters building (Cold Spring, MN) is awarded LEED Gold certification |