“There was additional stonework done through two main areas: a large courtyard from the basement, with beautiful stone walls, and the front of the house, which matches the original,” said Steve Lovell, owner of the Queen Anne Mansion. “Additionally, a stone perimeter wall, going across the front of the property was taken down and re-laid. Approximately 40% of the original wall was replaced.
“All of the new stone being laid was all hand-pitched exactly the way it was done in the 1800s,” Lovell went on to explain. “The nearest quarry, the Ozark Southern Stone’s limestone quarry, is home to the best limestone and highest quality limestone in the U.S. They had been able to do this in the past — that was the determining factor — their ability to construct stone that looked like it could have been laid back in the 1800s.”