There are two types of stone walls. One is freestanding and creates a fence or boundary. The other is a stone retaining wall. The method of construction is similar, but a stone retaining wall requires ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stone is “making a comeback” in the building industry after years of being “forgotten”, said the BBC. With clear benefits to ...

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 ...