Although stone walls have been around since the Stone Age, they have not been improved on in terms of beauty and utility. Sourced locally, or even on your property, stone is an intrinsically ...

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 ...

Stone walls have purpose, personality and permanence. Historically, their purpose was to contain livestock, define boundaries and serve as convenient storage for the many rocks removed from fields to ...

A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to construct ...

EGREMONT -- Paul Montgomery has a knack -- and a bit of an obsession -- for building classic New England stone walls. Since March, the 61-year-old homeowner has strenuously and meticulously placed ...

There are hundreds of stone walls in Lyme. Stone walls in east Concord. State geologist Rick Chormann and driving force behind the New Hampshire Stone Wall Project looks over a LIDAR readout on the ...

In Chicago and in cities around the world, landscape architects, masons and builders have been studying the finer points of dry stone walls. Historic preservationists want to preserve the handmade ...