Having spent 30+ years in residential construction, contracting, remodeling, maintenance and home repair, Deane now contributes DIY, informational and financial content as a freelance writer and ...

This stone foundation was probably built in the 1840s in New Hampshire. It will support a new apartment building with the help of the concrete block for at least another 200 years. (Tim Carter) ...

IT’S NEW ON 5. THERE ARE COUNTLESS STONE WALLS ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS WITH SOME DATING BACK TO THE REVOLUTION. BUT FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS 87 YEAR OLD BILL DORITY OF WESTWOOD HAS SPENT HIS RETIREMENT ...

The Hunterwood community in Brentwood recently came together with the Heritage Foundation of Williamson County to restore a historic stone wall. Although officials don't have an exact date of when the ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. 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 ...

Cob wall on stone foundation. Building with cob is pretty straight forward. Anyone in the family can learn the basic techniques and with a bit of guidance, you can build structures together as a group ...

When I was a kid living in southern New Hampshire, my family home was on the site of an abandoned farmstead consisting of massive stone foundations of quarried granite where dwellings once stood.

—This is the first in a series of articles on how you can enhance your walks in nature. That walk in the woods really rocked. That’s what you’ll be saying if you look at stone walls as more than just ...