Camp Ripley wall restoration, Little Falls, Minnesota
Repair and rebuild of a dry stone entrance and perimeter wall at a National Guard base and veterans cemetery.
The work was the repair and rebuild of roughly five thousand feet of dry stone entrance and perimeter wall at the base, alongside a veterans cemetery, carried out with the Dry Stone Conservancy. Walls of this kind fail from the top down, and the honest fix begins by taking the failing sections apart rather than facing over them.
The aim of a restoration is not to make the work look newly made. It is to return the structure to the logic that lets weather, gravity, and time leave it alone again.
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