A well-constructed stone wall can last for centuries. Use that wall to create a terraced surface where a short, steep and dangerous-to-mow grassy slope once lay. A stone wall also makes a nice ...

Last week I wrote about my recent trip to Southern California. I was fortunate to spend time with a dear friend and his wife. I don’t know that I’ve ever met a person who’s more in love with a home ...

Artisans around the world are ditching the mortar and embracing an old method of building rock walls Clachtoll Broch, a Scottish dwelling with dry stone walls, was built at least 2,000 years ago. Its ...

Seven thousand years ago, people living on the Atlantic edge of Europe built a massive wall of stone where land met water.

WESTERLY – John Washburn was 6 years old when his father, a stonemason, first taught him to mix cement. Now, 33 years later – and a stonemason himself – Washburn is putting that knowledge and decades ...

In Europe they’re a quaintly indelible part of the landscape. In the U.K alone, an estimated 74,000 miles of stone walls, built without mortar or rebar, are etched through the landscape. Forestville ...

Far below the waves off western France, a massive stone wall has emerged from obscurity to challenge what we thought we knew ...