Custom Michigan home with natural stone veneer exterior by The Stone Mill

QUARRIED IN MICHIGAN  ·  CUT TO ORDER  ·  SHIPPED NATIONALLY

The one thing on your homeyou will never wonder about.

Finishes change. Tastes shift. Natural Michigan stone simply deepens with time — it is the decision that takes care of itself.

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Real stone. Real permanence.

Color runs all the way through

Not a surface coating, not a tinted finish that weathers off. What goes up on the elevation is what you see in thirty years — richer, not faded.

Every piece is one of a kind

No mold, no repeating pattern, no cookie-cutter panel showing up twice on the same wall. The earth made each piece. Even we cannot reproduce it.

Michigan quarried, cut to your order

Not pulled from generic stock. Your dimensions, your blend, cut for your build, from quarry to jobsite. Shipped nationally.

THE NUMBERS, PUBLISHED

Nothing about this stone
is a mystery.

THIN VENEER10–14 lbs per square foot on most blends
FULL-BED35–40 square feet per ton
GEOLOGYDolomite limestone, Soo Lock sandstone, Michigan granites and basalts
CUTSAshlar · Ledge · Field Ledge · Castle · Cobble · Split
CATALOG15 Michigan blends, 28 products
SOURCINGRegionally quarried — supports regional-materials credit

Geology, color range, length and height are published on every one of our 28 product pages — whether you are comparing options for your own home or building a submittal. No gatekeeping, no form to fill out first.

15 Michigan blends. 28 products.

Great Lakes Ashlar Michigan stone veneer blend

GREAT LAKES ASHLARASHLAR CUT

Beach Blend Field Ledge Michigan stone veneer

BEACH BLENDFIELD LEDGE CUT

Black River Ashlar Michigan stone veneer

BLACK RIVER ASHLARASHLAR CUT

Old Mission Ashlar Michigan stone veneer

OLD MISSION ASHLARASHLAR CUT

Michigan Cobble granite stone veneer

MICHIGAN COBBLECOBBLE CUT

Hiawatha Castle Michigan stone veneer

HIAWATHA CASTLECASTLE CUT

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THE LONG VIEW

This is an investment that lasts generations.
These are the questions worth asking before you decide.

01

“I do not want it to look like everyone else’s.”

Every piece of natural stone from The Stone Mill is one of a kind. No two pieces are cut the same. When you choose Michigan stone you are choosing something that genuinely cannot be copied — because even we cannot reproduce it. The earth made each piece, not a mold.

02

“Will this still look right in twenty years?”

Natural stone carries its color and character all the way through, quarried from the same geology that built the Great Lakes shoreline. It does not age out of what it is. It matures. The stone will look more distinguished in twenty years than the day it goes up.

03

“Is natural stone really worth the premium?”

It is hard to make something in minutes that lasts as long as something created over millions of years. Natural stone was not produced to look permanent — it simply is. That is a difference you will feel the first time you hold a piece of it in your hand.

REAL PROJECTS

See it on real Michigan homes.

Exteriors, fireplaces, and foundations Michigan builders have already put it on — including work with Mike Schaap Builders, Benchmark Design Studio, and J. Visser Design.

Great Lakes Ashlar installed on a Michigan home exterior
GREAT LAKES ASHLARCUSTOM RESIDENCE
Hiawatha Castle stone veneer on a custom home by Mike Schaap Builders
HIAWATHA CASTLEMIKE SCHAAP BUILDERS
Michigan natural stone veneer on the House on a Hill project
HOUSE ON A HILLMICHIGAN NATURAL STONE

Stone that lasts generations,
cut by a family in its fourth.

It started on the beaches of Lake Michigan, hunting Petoskey stones with my mother. My dad passed the masonry trade on to me. I am the fourth generation to carry it on, and we are still cutting Michigan stone in Michigan.

MEMBER, NATURAL STONE INSTITUTE  ·  NAHB  ·  PURE MICHIGAN  ·  NSI CERTIFIED SPEAKER

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