You might not care for the look of concrete blocks for your retaining wall. But you can use another material that's durable and more visually appealing.

This handsome stone gateway is at a municipal golf course in Cincinnati. My grandfather, who was a baker, built decorative garden walls and arches like this. So can you! (Tim Carter/TNS) Perspective ...

My grandfather was a baker in Cincinnati in the very early 1900s. He and my grandmother owned and operated a neighborhood bakery in the Clifton Heights neighborhood just 400 feet from where I was born ...

When my grandfather retired from his career as a baker in Cincinnati, he decided to build an apartment building just down the street from his former workplace. He named it Valley View for its ...

Stone walls act as important habitats and microclimates bringing diversity to the landscape by creating dryer areas where animals like chipmunks, bobcats, or foxes can live or hunt above the damp ...