It took about a week for visitors to the massive Catholic cathedral in Cologne, Germany, to notice a small addition to its ornate Gothic entrance — a carved stone figure of Pope Francis leaning ...

He decided this despite being told that no one knew how to make his favorite stone carvings, gargoyles, anymore and that creating them was a lost art. So it should be all the more gratifying for ...

TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – It’s been over 100 years since the last wood carving project was conducted at Emma Willard School in Troy. It wasn’t just the history that made Friday’s event so special. Meet ...

TROY — A 1993 graduate of Emma Willard and stone carver was commissioned for the first carving project in more than a century on the historic campus. Heather Milne Ritchie of Barre, Vt., is carving ...

BARTLETT, Ill. -- Walter S. Arnold was helping a monster break free of its stone prison. "This is actually a grotesque, not a gargoyle," the stone carver explained as he used a hydraulic lift to ...

TROY >> As students from Emma Willard School are getting ready to start their new school year, they will now be able to see four new stone carvings in the archway under Hyphen Hall. Vermont stone ...