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Sharing It With The World Jon Madle at Home and Hearth Masonry does award-winning custom stone work inside and outside your home
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eographic regions have their own identity. In Bucks County people from other states clamor to get a peek inside an old stone farmhouse. The nostalgia. The charm. The stuff house tours and HGTV’s Stone House Revival are made of. Meet Jon Madle of Home and Hearth Masonry. A veteran stone mason located in Perkasie, he likes nothing better than to get his hands on these structures and let his talent go to work. As you might expect in the county with a hundred plus year-old buildings, a large portion of a mason’s work is restoration. And so it goes that Madle, who got much of his training on the job, laid his carpenters tools to the side and picked up his trowel and hasn’t looked back. During trade school Jon, who studied carpentry, worked for a friend’s family who owned and operated a masonry business. He was hired for his carpentry skills, but as he says of the masonry trade, “I fell into it.” Accepted as an apprentice for the Philadelphia Brick
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