My introduction to building a stone wall, like beginnings in so many homesteading skills, came unexpectedly, urgently, and at the wrong time. It was a rare clear morning during a rainy spring in the ...

As the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., is chock full of seats of government, monuments, and civic spaces, all the more monumental when placed at the intersection or terminus of the city’s diagrid ...

The 550-foot stone-masonry retaining wall that separates the rear alley of houses along West Penn Street from the common driveway of homes along Midvale Avenue is leaning, cracked and unsafe. (Bas ...