One element of historic homes - homes that are hundreds of years old, that is - is super thick brick and stone, whether that ...

Confusingly, the term "tuckpointing" is often misused to describe the basic process of removing old ... the brick or stone surrounding it, meaning it's likely to fail long before the wall itself.

Remaining in the ashes were an interior wall of the once-beautiful rotunda ... Thursday only a smouldering [sic] mass of brick and stone is left.” The article also reported, “Not a cent ...