ROCK OF AGES from Pool & Spa News
by Rebecca Robledo
August 20, 2004
A Massachusetts couple got more than they bargained for when purchasing this property. It came with a miniature quarry sculpted into a rectangle, where some of the harvested stone from the project had been used for the Washington Monument. Without realizing it, quarry men had excavated a pool 2 1/2 centuries ago.
Landscape architect Selina Lamb and her clients were resolved not to alter that creation. "They wanted a fully functional, heated swimming pool inside that quarry," says Michael Giannamore, vice president of Aqua Pool & Patio Inc. in East Windsor, Conn., who collaborated with Selina Lamb Ltd. of Tyringham, Mass., on the project.
Three 25-foot-tall walls of limestone or marble towered over the basin, which measured approximately 16-by-35 feet. A small road leading to the quarry breached the fourth side. The floor had two elevations - one floor - one about 3 feet lower than the other.
"What you have there is a swimming hole that is fully heated, computerized, self-cleaning with chlorine generator and everything," Michael Giannamore says. "It's unbelievable. You get awestruck because of the height of the three walls around you," he adds. "It something from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."