Lost Art Stone Masonry

Lost Art Stone Masonry is one of the few traditional letter and relief carvers in the United States. We make replacement/replica headstones, new monuments, address stones and desk name plates. All carvings are created by hand using only a hammer and chisel. This makes our monuments not only historically accurate but also beautiful and unlike anything else available in the modern monument market.

Lost Art Stone Masonry has won multiple local, state and one national historic preservation award for pre-civil war family plot cemetery restorations and historic monument restorations.

Lost Art Stone Masonry has years of experience restoring historic masonry projects and building new masonry structures. Freestanding and retaining drystone walls, ground up masonry chimney builds, stone veneers and buildings.  We also have experience with historically accurate lime mortars. Our goal is to cultivate the same craftsmanship that the original builders of historic stone structures used.

Stuart F. Joynt IV is a certified master drystone mason and carver with 20 years of experience that has completed projects from Atlantic City, New Jersey to Grand Teton National Park in Jackson, Wyoming to New Orleans, Louisiana.  One restoration project for the Lexington Chapter of the DAR won a first place National Historic Preservation award. Customers have included two National Parks, multiple projects for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, FEMA, conservation groups and numerous private projects.

We offer a wide range of masonry services including drystone projects, mortared projects, stone veneers, full masonry chimney builds, historic cemetery restorations, retaining walls and new and replica hand carved monuments.

Our goal is to replicate and maintain traditional stone projects with the same level of craftsmanship and the same building materials that were used historically.