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You get a stone wall. And you get a stone wall. Everyone gets a stone wall….

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This is the area where we did most of our exploring while in Rhode Island.

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We stayed in Newport at the end of one peninsula but drove up and over and down another through Tiverton, Little Compton and Sakonnet.

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Beautiful places all, but one thing that always stood out?

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The stone walls.

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Everywhere.

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In front of every house.

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Some beautifully maintained and manicured…

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Some tumbling and overgrown.

I live in Maine, we know stone walls. Our home alone has three, well… four if you count the one you can’t see down back in our woods… on our property. Our neighbors have none.

But in this section of Rhode Island?

They’re everywhere.

On both sides of the street… for miles.

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In Maine, some stone walls have been in place for hundreds of years. They came about when farmers needed to clear fields for planting or livestock. The stones were dug up, hauled away and used as fences.

Necessity, meet invention.

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But today if you build a house and want a stone wall? Prepare to pay.

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We had a friend who built them for a living and did very well.

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We haven’t had contact with him for almost decade but I remember the last time we saw him on a job in 2016… he was charging $1,000 for every 10 feet, plus the cost of the stone which will make you gasp.

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I can only imagine what he charges now.

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26 thoughts on “You get a stone wall. And you get a stone wall. Everyone gets a stone wall….”

  2. Those stone walls are beautiful, they look as if they were meant to be with the landscape. Every neighborhood here has stone walls, to separate the properties. But they don’t look neat and clean like the stone walls you pictures. Here they are built to stay together with concrete. If you paint it, it doesn’t look as bad but to me they aren’t as pretty to look at like those up in Rhode Island.

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    1. They’re very pricey. We were lucky ours were already here when we moved in. Though I did have my husband build me a stone garden bed… that was crazy expensive, and he did all the labor himself.

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      5. …stop a car from rolling away?

        I told him how you’d said it was expensive to acquire stone AND pay a mason; hence, our wondering if there were aesthetic standards or whatnot.

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  7. One thing I like(d) about my area is the lack of front yard fences. A few years back, someone had one built – then a bunch of other neighbors did, too. Too each their own, but I still hate them… in this area, they’re just possessive & hostile.

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