Q: When we bought our 1942 house nine years ago, it came with a brick retaining wall 35 feet long and 4½-to-5½ feet tall. Holding up the stairs to our front door, it was already leaning to one ...

(BPT) – When you picture a retaining wall, do you imagine it holding back dirt? That’s the most common use for retaining walls — to address elevation changes and prevent erosion. But ...

Stairs at the McQuesten High Level Bridge that lead to the Waterfront Trail at the Desjardins Canal will be closed while the city repairs a retaining wall.

The city was not going to step in and deal with the retaining wall, she said. ... the slats were reimagined as shallow steps —pigeon steps. The 11th Street stairs, ...

Few Twin Cities spots so dramatically reveal our history as the odd set of stairs wedged between the retaining walls of two of St. Paul’s finest historic mansions.

After removing stairs that gave homeowners lake access, the state offered pittances in compensation, followed by years of ...

PEARISBURG — The clang of a hammer on a metal wedge signaled the latest step — quite literally — in the long repositioning of the Appalachian Trail here above Bluff ...

A left and a 0.3-mile stroll along Rotary Drive brings you to the silhouettes of coyotes, raccoons, and skunks that artist Joey Franks painted on a wall. Walk down the stairs and continue downhill ...

At 10:30pm on Sat. night, a driver in a truck crashed into the stairs/retaining wall of the Ludwick Center at Santa Rosa & Mill. The driver was taken to a hospital for a non-life threatening injury.

The wall you see today came in the 1930s as a public works project. The Public Works Administration constructed the concrete retaining wall on both sides of all the existing staircases, says Huelsman.