John Shaw-Rimmington started building dry stone walls after the stones themselves complained to him. It was the 1980s, and he was living in Ontario, working for clients who wanted decorative stone ...

Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but only in New England are they nearly ubiquitous. That’s due to a regionally unique combination of hard crystalline bedrock, glacial ...

A few weeks after the tornado on May 16th, a former neighbor from Washington Place texted looking for a recommendation. One ...

From Stone Walls, a Tribute to Courage October 19, 2005 In 1907, Col. Floyd Harris, a wealthy sportsman, purchased Stoke, a manor house a mile south of the dilapidated stone walls that once made ...

An extravagant penthouse in Streeterville finished with colorful slabs of polished stone on the walls and floor of nearly every room is back on the market nine years after it first went up for sale.

Not quite 70 feet below the Baltic Sea, a stunning find has swum into view - a stone wall more than half a mile long that dates back to the Stone Age. It's one of the oldest so-called ...

Spring, when snow and drainage runs through the old, stone walls, is often a busy time. Another threat to stone walls is a 20th century invention — the automobile.

SOUTH RANGE — A tiered stone wall rises like a fortress at the end of this rural Douglas County dead-end road. It’s holding back a hill with a nearly 8,000-square-foot triplex built into it.

(THE CONVERSATION) The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere – a ...