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 ...

By Larry Walton, Photos by Brian Monroe How to use manufactured stone to create a beautiful fireplace. There’s no denying ...

Your garden wants bones as much as blossoms. Edges that hold their line when the winter rain turns paths to porridge, and a place for birds and beetles to tuck in. A dry‑stone wall built from natural ...

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 ...

The Monadnock Building in Chicago began construction in 1891 and is still in use today. The building features a somber facade without ornamentation and a colossal height - at the time - of 16 floors.

Leaning over a metal rail in a brown shirt jacket and work jeans, Kevin Gardner of Hopkinton quietly considered the half-built wall at his feet as he’d done time and time again over the past 45 years.