Brickstone

Brickstone is a Hingham, Massachusetts masonry and landscape-construction outfit that Josh, Ben and Ashley Bascon say they started out of a shared interest in stone, building and the outdoors — the company works across New England on everything from garden terraces to full patio and retaining-wall rebuilds. The written record here runs a full decade, 2016 through a January 2025 review, and it stays remarkably consistent: every review on Houzz, Angi and HomeAdvisor comes back 5 stars, and the specifics repeat across years rather than platforms. A 2018 review described the crew fully dismantling and rebuilding an 80-foot, century-old granite retaining wall on a site barely wide enough for a three-foot sidewalk, sorting and re-setting hundreds of stones by hand. A 2019 customer who hired the company four separate times, for chimney work and three later projects, called the results outstanding; another that year praised the "perfect curves" in a set of natural stone walls. Communication comes up again and again, from a 2017 review calling the crew "the most professional and responsive" of four companies interviewed, through a January 2025 review using almost the same words. Houzz's own listing backs this up with a Best of Boston 2021 award and 7 Houzz awards, and puts the typical job in the $5,000–$500,000 range across 18 posted South Shore and Cape projects — a sense of what kind of job this crew is built for: real hardscape and masonry builds, not small patch repairs. Ask directly about current crew availability and lead times before booking, since the most recently quoted review dates to January 2025. For a homeowner planning a retaining wall, patio or larger stone project on the South Shore, this is a company whose customers keep describing the same things years apart: careful, detailed stonework and a crew that answers questions.