Stone Walls in Lexington, Massachusetts.

A wall in Lexington is a drainage structure before it is a stone one. Drumlins and ledge outcrops around the historic town center sit on shallow soil over ledge in the hill neighborhoods, firmer till elsewhere — 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 Lexington lot into level, planted, usable ground and — built this way — it stays that way, quietly, for decades.

Freestanding fieldstone is the older language of Greater Boston, and it is what makes new work read as though it belongs. We source local stone, sort it by hand on site, and dry-stack so each stone carries load to the ones below it — no mortar hiding a mistake. The result carries the settled, irregular character of the walls already standing around Moon Hill, Meriam Hill, and Follen Hill.

Where the the modernist Moon Hill and Peacock Farm enclaves alongside colonial estates call for a cleaner line — a granite-capped seat wall, a mortared wall against a foundation — we build that too, matched to the house and the planting plan.

Lexington’s modernist enclaves demand crisp, architectural stone lines, while its historic core expects restraint — we build to whichever the address calls for.

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