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 ...

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 ...

Q. I was traveling on a fall foliage road trip in southwest New Hampshire and saw a gorgeous double-arch bridge. The historical marker sign said that no mortar was used in the construction. It was so ...

Garden retaining walls should, it seems, be made out of stone. By its very nature, stone is at ease in the garden; stone walls have a strength and soft irregularity that embrace and guide a garden ...

This handsome stone gateway is at a municipal golf course in Cincinnati. My grandfather, who was a baker, built decorative garden walls and arches like this. So can you! (Tim Carter/TNS) Perspective ...

Make sure the piers are leveled so no wedging is necessary, to make the stone bridge as stable as possible. You stone bridge will be higher than the path leading to it. Build the path up with tamped ...