To Build a Church

St. Peter's Church, Grand Detour, IL. Don't miss this stop if you are visiting the John Deere home. My questions today are rambling and hopefully will interest people of a wide variety of backgrounds.

Church questions:
1. What is the history of the Episcopal church in the U.S.?
2. What is their background? (from what group did they come from)
3. Do they have any unique differences from their Catholic brethren?

4. What is a diocese?
5. Where did the word come from?

Geology questions:
1. What is limestone?
2. How is it formed?
3. Where are the largest deposits?
4. How hard is it compared with granite or other rock?

5. How is it mined?
6. What is it's value? (is it expensive)
7. How easily is it shaped?

Construction questions:
1. How thick is the foundation?
2. How deep in the ground (assume there is a basement)? This would mean, how deep below the floor level of the basement would the foundation have to be?
3. How was mortar made in 1849? Where did the materials come from?
4. How were the archways formed?
5. Why do the windows have a pointed peak instead of a rounded peak?
6. How was the church heated?
7. How was glass made in 1849?
8. The interior has plaster walls, was the interior framed after the exterior stone was laid?
9. How long did a stone mason apprentice in 1849? What were the most common tools of the trade? Did John Deere make any of them?