Retaining Walls, Stonework & Landscaping in Fayetteville, AR
Fayetteville is built on hills, with rocky soil over slow-draining clay. We design walls, drainage, and outdoor spaces for both.
If you live in Fayetteville, you already know the ground is not flat. Between Mount Sequoyah, Markham Hill, and the ridges around the university, a lot of yards here slope toward the house or away from it, and under the rocky topsoil there is often dense clay that drains slowly after a hard rain. A patio or wall that ignores either one can crack, lean, or flood.
Architectural Landscape Construction has been building in stone since 1987. Roger Hendrix and his brother are two of Arkansas’s few true stone masons, and on Fayetteville properties that experience matters most below the surface: the footing, the base, the drainage behind a wall. It is the part nobody sees and the part that decides whether the work lasts.
Slopes, clay, and old trees
Fayetteville’s older neighborhoods come with mature oaks and maples whose roots run under everything, and newer homes on the hillsides often come with a steep backyard nobody can use. Both are solvable. Terracing with retaining walls turns a slope into level space for a patio or garden. French drains and grading send water away from foundations instead of toward them.
We start by walking the property with you, looking at where water runs after a rain, and, on bigger projects, drawing the plan to scale. Then we build it: walls, drains, stone, plantings, and irrigation, in the right order.
What we build in Fayetteville
- Stone masonry: Walls, steps, columns, and fireplaces laid by hand by stone masons who have been at it since 1987.
- Engineered retaining wall systems: Stone and block wall systems, properly footed and drained, to hold a slope or create level ground.
- French drains and grading: Moving water away from foundations and out of low spots for good.
- Stone patios and steps: Natural stone and pavers that make a hillside yard walkable.
- Sprinkler systems: Irrigation designed for sloped yards so water soaks in instead of running off.
- Custom fences: Privacy and garden fencing built to follow the grade.
- Outdoor kitchens and fire features: Stonework for the level space once the slope is under control.
- Swimming pools: Pools set into sloped lots, with the retaining walls and drainage planned around them.
Drainage, walls, and stone from one company
One contractor for everything, no 10 others to deal with. On a Fayetteville hillside, the retaining wall, the drainage behind it, the patio in front of it, and the sprinkler lines through it all have to be planned together. Split that between separate contractors and the gaps show up the first heavy rain. We design and build the whole thing, so it works as one system.
“Our garden fence and retaining wall turned out beautiful.”
Have a slope or a drainage problem in Fayetteville?
Call Roger at (479) 363-4863 or send us a message and we will set up a time to walk your property.
Legacies in stone since 1987.