Stone Walls & Patios in Poughkeepsie, NY

Poughkeepsie yards work with a slope — the city steps down toward the Hudson, and plenty of Arlington and Spackenkill lots hold their lawns behind a retaining wall that has been leaning a little more each spring. We build dry-stacked stone walls that hold because of how they are built: base dug right, stones chosen and fitted so gravity does the work, drainage respected so frost cannot shove the wall over. The same craft lays bluestone patios and walkways — the classic Hudson Valley surface, set level and tight, that turns a back lawn into the room the house was missing.