Stone Walls in Kittery, Maine.

Price in Kittery is driven less by the stone than by what is under it. Access, how far material has to be carried, the depth of base granite ledge and thin soil demands, and the amount of drainage a site needs move a number far more than the choice between one bluestone and another.

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.

Kittery Point holds some of the oldest houses in Maine on open harbor ledge — period restraint and storm-grade construction, both at once.

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 Kittery site is left clean at the end of every day.

A wall in Kittery is a drainage structure before it is a stone one. Rocky harbor points at the mouth of the Piscataqua sit on granite ledge and thin soil, salt-exposed on the point — 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 Kittery lot into level, planted, usable ground and — built this way — it stays that way, quietly, for decades.

We buy from New England quarries and yards we have used for years, and we hand-pick rather than take a pallet sight unseen. For Kittery, that usually means matching color and texture to the colonial-era harbor houses and shingled point estates already on the street.

A large share of our Maine work is executing drawings for landscape architects — reading elevations, holding the specified batter and joint, and flagging a conflict before it becomes a change order. Much of it in ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Keep Landscape Design.