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New England Fieldstone is the product of the various ice ages of New England tilling rock into the fertile soil of the Northeast United States. Farmers coped with stone for hundreds of years by setting it into neat walls and stacks when it obstructed a plow.

With the dissappearance of open farmland, this material has become scarce. Our hand select fieldstone spent the last 150 years above ground, warming up, cooling off, collecting rain and snow, and growing plant matter like moss and lichen. This imparts a rich patina of light brown, tan, orange, and light blue. Historic Fieldstone walls define the architectural and landscape of thousands of communities across New England. My livelihood is to make this material available as a veneer for commercial or residential buildings (including LEED), retaining walls, foundations, and anywhere that the look of aged natural fieldstone is desired.

Stoneyard.com sorts fieldstone into shapes, such as round, square, mosaic, ledge and ashlar pieces. After sorting our carefully recycled stone, we distribute it as 3-6 inch sorted face fieldstone (minimizes waste on masonry projects but potentially higher trucking costs on big jobs), or a 1.5 inch fieldstone veneer (at below 14 pounds per square foot no special hardware is needed!).

New England fieldstone veneer has numerous green building benefits. This natural material contains a high thermal mass and therefore lowers the cost to heat and cool your home, does not off-gas volatile organic compounds, is a local product, and is extremely rare. Not only does natural stone cost roughly the same as manufactured imitation, it lasts much longer and gives the mason much more flexibility when "working" the stone.

Our company sells through local outlets that serve their local communities by inventorying our stone.

Please email me at gerald@stoneyard.com.