Stone Masons
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Natural Stone & Mosaic Contractors
7953 Angleton Court
Lorton, VA 22079
Voice: (571) 642-2672
Fax: (571) 642-2678
Brett Rugo founded Rugo Stone in 1996. The company employs more than 100 workers and has won multiple craftsmanship awards. Their projects include museums, churches and high-end residential construction.
Rugo is a member of the board of directors of the Marble Institute of America (MIA), the world’s leading information resource and advocate for the natural stone industry. MIA members include marble, granite, limestone, sandstone, and other natural stone producers and quarriers, fabricators, installers, distributors, and contractors around the world.
On the Duke Divinity School Addition:
Three masonry firms built mockups of stone walls before the project began, competing for the opportunity to work on the building. Selected from three firms competing for the divinity school contract, Rugo Stone provided a unique combination of expertise with both limestone carving and stone masonry.
The Divinity School addition features 48 truckloads of Indiana limestone. Carved by master stonecarvers in Indiana, 2,100 individual pieces—each with a distinct location in the structure—were trucked to Duke and assembled on site. Carving each of 11 decorative finials—exact replicas of those on Duke Chapel—required approximately 280 hours of labor.
In Durham, masons handcrafted 1,010 tons of stone from the Duke quarry using many of the same techniques from neo-Gothic Duke Chapel and the original divinity school structure (1926). The result is a seamless transition from the original structures to the new addition.