The stone building at Sixth Avenue and Moccasin Creek was born from South Dakota’s prairie. Those are field stones from land east of Groton, used to build its walls in the 1940s. I didn’t really ...

Thirty years ago Joe Getty, one of Carroll County’s leading historians, wrote several articles for this newspaper about the industrial heritage of the stone building at 14 Liberty Street in ...

Durell Stone's original facade design represents a height of New Formalism. (Kevin Scott) The building had not been touched since a previous renovation a few decades prior to Montalba’s engagement ...

A small stone building in Johnson County is telling a much bigger story about how education began in Eastern Iowa and now, there’s a push to preserve it before that history is lost.

Q: I’m building a very small house and love the look of natural stone. I also intend to build some low garden walls that I want to look like stone too. I’ve seen the artificial stone at building ...