Stone Walls in Ogunquit, Maine.

Ogunquit sits in York County, and most weeks we are somewhere in this pocket of Southern Maine — which means shorter travel, faster site visits, and a crew that already knows how ground behaves around here.

Freestanding fieldstone is the older language of Southern Maine, 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 Marginal Way, Perkins Cove, and Israel Head.

Where the shingled coastal cottages and artist estates above the sea 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.

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.

A wall in Ogunquit is a drainage structure before it is a stone one. A rocky headland between Marginal Way and the tidal Ogunquit River sit on granite ledge and thin soil, sandier toward the beach and river — 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 Ogunquit lot into level, planted, usable ground and — built this way — it stays that way, quietly, for decades.

A job in Ogunquit 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.