Many years ago, when I was young and foolish, I decided to build an 80-foot long terrace for fruit trees, and to edge it with a nice fieldstone retaining wall, using stones I could find on my property ...

My grandfather was a baker in Cincinnati in the very early 1900s. He and my grandmother owned and operated a neighborhood bakery in the Clifton Heights neighborhood just 400 feet from where I was born ...

Growing demand for durable outdoor structures is increasing interest in retaining walls, stone walls, and other masonry ...

When my grandfather retired from his career as a baker in Cincinnati, he decided to build an apartment building just down the street from his former workplace. He named it Valley View for its ...

On level ground, use a stone wall to better define your terrace or driveway, or to create a garden “room.” A stone wall also makes a nice backdrop against which to show off your bed of flowers or ...

Stroll through the woods of New England and you’re bound to come across long stretches of stone walls. The historic walls function as more than a barrier. A geologist says they unite the region in a ...

If you have ever walked in the woods anywhere in New England, you have likely stumbled into an old stone wall and wondered at their purpose and how they were built. This wonder can be satiated at one ...

I was making a stone wall, by gosh. I drove around the villages that make up the Town of Yarmouth and found, hitherto barely noticed, stone walls everywhere. And I mean everywhere. Stone walls are all ...