The developer blames red tape, but for residents footing the bill, the real issue is a system with no consequences.

Federal officials sent a crew to dismantle a 120-foot-tall smokestack at Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park.

Colleen Grell, the EPA’s on-site coordinator, said the bricks and mortar being removed from the chimney will be tested to determine whether they are contaminated with the asbestos and lead that ...

Background: Todd Weiss, a Refton resident and Democratic candidate for supervisor, has tried for several years to find redress for a crumbling brick chimney on a neighbor’s house that he says ...

State parks officials had hoped the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse would open this month, after a $1.8 million renovation. But extensive rot and crumbling brick mean the building remains closed and ...

If the chimney flashing appears intact and the leak is in that area of the ceiling, look for cracks in mortar or areas of missing mortar around the chimney’s bricks. Plumbing Problems ...

For the second time in a decade, it is up to a Chinese entrepreneur to make President Trump’s high school great again. Like some of the 20th-century American institutions whose decline Trump laments, ...

Using a wooden form, Ramon Castro, left, and Luis Cantu with Tellez Masonry in Oro Valley, Ariz., make mud adobe bricks for the restoration of the Marist College on August 14, 2017.

Peering through crumbling doorways reveals nature’s slow reclamation project—brick arches frame views of what was once opulent interior space. Photo credit: Steven Daniel This church, famous as the ...

According to Blakeslee, there have been plans for many renovations of the theater, including safety rails on the balcony and the removal of a crumbling brick chimney.