Stone Walls · Arlington, MA
Stone Walls in Arlington, Massachusetts.
Building stone walls in Arlington starts underground, on firm urban till on grades that make retention essential. Steep hillside lots and tight in-town access. We hand-set every stone to suit the Victorians and colonials on close-set of greater Boston, and we build it to still be plumb in thirty years.
What stone walls cost in Arlington
Two properties on the same Arlington street can differ by a third in price, and it is almost never the stone. It is access for machines, the base depth firm urban till on grades that make retention essential calls for, how much water has to be managed, and whether existing planting has to be protected while we work.
You get an itemized scope after we walk the property — what is included, what is not, and where the money actually goes. No allowances that quietly become change orders halfway through.
Building walls in Arlington
Arlington is grade-change and tight-access country — retaining walls, terraced patios, and neighbor-considerate staging are the heart of the work here.
Much of this work we build straight from a landscape architect’s drawing — batter, height, cap detail, and stone selection exactly as specified — in ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Keep Landscape Design. The Arlington site is left clean at the end of every day.
Walls that hold Arlington’s ground
A wall in Arlington is a drainage structure before it is a stone one. The steep slopes of Arlington Heights dropping toward the Mystic valley sit on firm urban till on grades that make retention essential — and that is where a wall lives or dies. We excavate to a compacted base below frost depth and build a weep-and-drainage channel behind every retaining wall, so the hydrostatic pressure of a New England winter never gets the leverage to push it out of plumb.
Turn a sloped Arlington lot into level, planted, usable ground and — built this way — it stays that way, quietly, for decades.
Schedule and site care in Arlington
A job in Arlington is a few weeks of trucks, machines, and people in your yard. We plan staging and protection before day one — drive plates, root-zone protection, a defined material area — and leave the site clean each evening rather than at the end.
Where the stone comes from
The yards we buy from are regional and long-standing, which is how we can match an existing wall or terrace years later. In Arlington that continuity matters — the Victorians and colonials on close-set here tends to get added to over time, not replaced.
Questions
Stone Walls in Arlington, answered.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds stone walls throughout Arlington — from Arlington Heights, Morningside, and Jason Heights — and across Greater Boston, and has since 2008. We’re licensed and insured, we work across Massachusetts, and we build from architectural plans with millimeter precision.
Usually, yes. We hand-select from regional yards to match color, cleft, and scale against what is already on the property — which matters in Arlington, where the Victorians and colonials on close-set tend to be added to over time rather than replaced.
Most residential walls in MetroWest fall between $65 and $130 per square face foot, depending on stone type, height, drainage requirements, and access. Dry-stacked fieldstone and engineered retaining walls sit at the higher end. We give a clear, itemized scope after walking the site.
Most residential work runs one to three weeks on site, depending on size, access, and how much excavation firm urban till on grades that make retention essential demands. You get a real schedule before we start, and we hold it — including the clean-up at the end of each day.
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