Brickstone

Brickstone Masonry is a Hingham stone-and-hardscape crew — Ben, Ashley, and Josh Bascon — that turns up in review after review for the kind of work that's hard to fake: century-old granite retaining walls, multi-level terraces, bluestone and granite patios, outdoor fireplaces. The company says it's been in business 13 years, and Houzz backs that history with a Best of Boston 2021 award, seven Houzz Awards, and a perfect 5.0 across 26 ratings on quality, communication, and value alike. What stands out across the written record — 16 reviews spanning 2016 through a January 2025 batch, all five stars — is how often people hired them more than once. One customer describes using Brickstone on four separate projects over the years: chimney work at a previous home, then retaining walls, granite steps, and culvert work at the next, calling the results outstanding in a 2019 review. Another, in 2018, describes Ben and Ashley rebuilding a century-old, four-foot granite retaining wall holding up a Victorian's elevated corner lot — the kind of structural repair that separates a real mason from a paver installer. A recurring thread through the older Houzz reviews is the process itself: Ben walking a design through in person, Ashley following up with computer-rendered visualizations before anyone breaks ground, and crews that leave a job site spotless at the end of every day, even on 12-hour shifts. There's nothing negative on the written record to weigh against that — the three most recent reviews, from January 2025, describe a retaining wall, a $10,000 paver patio, and a $50,000 paver driveway, all rated five stars, so the same pattern has continued into the recent past. One thing worth clarifying directly: the company's own site lists Hingham as its service area, while a directory profile separately publishes a much broader list of roughly 113 towns — worth confirming your town is actually covered before getting attached to a design. Given the range of project sizes on record, from a driveway refresh to a $500,000 job, it's also worth being specific up front about scope and budget.