Business

Frank and Ralph Petrillo Celebrate a Company Milestone

If you haven’t heard, Petrillo Stone Corporation celebrated 109 years of business in 2016. The New York-based company was founded in 1907 by A.T. Petrillo and is now headed by his grandsons Frank and Ralph. To celebrate this accomplishment and family tradition, the Petrillo brothers shared part of the company’s history in a recent press release. Read the full article here. “We’ve been involved in high end projects for as long as I can remember,” Ralph Petrillo said. “One of my first memories is when my father and uncle (John Petrillo and August Petrillo) had taken the contract for the…

Ralph Petrillo Visits New 9/11 Memorial in Greenwich, CT

This week is the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and is understandably an emotional time for people across our nation. This is the time of year where we stop to remember the lives lost in those tragic attacks, as well as come together in a show of patriotism. This was especially true when our very own Ralph Petrillo visited the construction site of the new September 11th Memorial in Greenwich, CT in Cos Cob Park. On September 11, 2001, 32 people with ties to Greenwich, CT were killed. The names of these individuals have been incorporated into the…

Update on the Comcast Building Project

In this post is a photo of one of the many stones ( Deer Island Granite  ) that Petrillo Stone Corporation fabricated for the Comcast Building (formerly the G E Building). We originally described this project in an earlier blog post. In addition to fabricating the stone, we also gold leafed the carved letters and logo by hand. Ralph Petrillo was the project manager on this project. He oversaw the fabrication and gold leafing of this project, as well as made sure everything ran smoothly and on time. Although the stones were completed a few months ago, the official unveiling of…

Installing Calacatta Vagli Marble for the lobby at 90 Park Ave

To the right is a photo of Petrillo Stone Corp.’s interior marble setters installing Calacatta Vagli Marble for the lobby at 90 Park Avenue. The marble was quarried and fabricated in Carrara, Italy and supplied and installed by Petrillo Stone Corporation out of Mount Vernon, NY . Before being fabricated in Italy, the pieces were drafted and drawn by Petrillo’s draftsmen at our Mount Vernon Offices. At Petrillo Stone, we always adhere to the traditional approaches to stone masonry because that’s the way it’s done best. We use only the highest quality materials, which often means obtaining marble all the…

Petrillo Stone Creates Gold Leafing for 30 Rockefeller

30 Rockefeller Plaza was in need of stone, and they contacted Petrillo Stone Corporation to do the job. Our attention to detail and passion for the craft is what makes such iconic clients trust us with their most serious projects. As you can see in the photos below, the team at Petrillo Stone details each project by hand. We were applying gold leafing to a sample of the granite stones we’ll be supplying to 30 Rockefeller in the near future. For more on this project, visit our company blog.

285 Madison Avenue Lobby Renovation

The pictures below show the marble that Petrillo Stone Corporation installed at 285 Madison Avenue in NYC. We drafted, supplied and installed the material. Calacatta Vagli Marble was used on the walls and Jet Mist Granite on the floors.

Petrillo Stone Corp Receives Award for Excellence

We’re proud to announce that Petrillo Stone was recently the recipient of an award from the US Trade & Commerce Institute. The press release below details the specifics of this honor. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Petrillo Stone Corporation receives 2013 New York Excellence Award May 19th 2014 –  Petrillo Stone Corporation has been selected for the 2013 New York Excellence Award amongst all its peers and competitors by the US Trade & Commerce Institute (USTCI). Each year the USTCI conducts business surveys and industry research to identify companies that have achieved demonstrable success in their local business environment and industry category. They…

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