Serving the Lehigh Valley and beyond — 30 miles around Center Valley, PA.

Rome Masonry & Construction is based right here in Center Valley, Pennsylvania — 5953 Main Street, a stone's throw from Route 309 and the ridge that separates the Lehigh Valley from upper Bucks County. This isn't a franchise, and it isn't a national brand parachuting in with a sales team. Owner Matthew Romanowski grew up in this area, learned the craft on Lehigh Valley walls, and has been signing his name to the work here since 2014. When we say Center Valley is home, we mean we drive by our projects on the way to the grocery store.

Center Valley itself is a mix of old and new. The historic center along Main Street, the neighborhoods tucked behind the Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley, and the Saucon Valley school district homes stretching toward Coopersburg and Hellertown are full of houses that need real masonry — not sales-truck patch-jobs. On a typical week our crew is repointing an 1890s brick chimney off Landis Mill Road, laying a full flagstone patio on a wooded lot near Camel's Hump, rebuilding a stone retaining wall on a sloped Saucon Valley driveway, and fielding a call from a Center Valley homeowner who just noticed their foundation is stepping. That range is the point. When one contractor understands historic mortar, engineered walls, chimneys, and hardscape, you don't have to coordinate three trades — and nothing falls through the cracks.

A lot of the older Center Valley homes were built with soft, lime-based mortars, and a lot of newer ones were built by builders using whatever hardened Portland mix was on the truck that morning. The right mortar for the wall matters enormously in freeze-thaw country like eastern Pennsylvania — a mortar that's harder than the brick will crack the face of every brick around it inside a decade. Historic restoration is one of our specialties precisely because so many local homes were done wrong the first time they were "restored." We use period-correct mixes, tint mortar to match the original wall, and repair without leaving a visible scar. It's slower work. It's also the work that lasts.

On the outdoor-living side, Center Valley's lots reward good hardscape. The properties around Saucon Valley Country Club and the newer subdivisions off Landis Mill and Vera Cruz Road often have real backyard acreage — the kind of space that can hold a full flagstone patio with a wood-fired fireplace, a proper built-in outdoor kitchen, and a firepit with a sitting wall that doesn't feel bolted on. We design the whole package as one masonry project. That means the fireplace surround matches the sitting wall, the patio pattern reads with the house, the drainage actually works, and the finished space feels like it grew out of the yard rather than being trucked in from a catalog.

We also do a steady stream of driveways, walkways, sidewalks, and foundation repairs in Center Valley — the kind of concrete and block work that isn't glamorous but has to be done right. If you're standing on a driveway that's heaved into three pieces over the last five winters, the fix isn't a topcoat, it's a proper tear-out, re-grade, and repour with the base and joints your soils actually need. Same with a settling porch or a bowing foundation wall — we diagnose the cause, not just the symptom.

Because we're local, response time in Center Valley is fast. Most estimates get scheduled inside a week, and small emergency work — a leaking chimney, a cracked step, a section of wall coming loose — can usually be looked at within a day or two. Matthew answers the phone. That's not marketing copy; it's how the business is run. Call (484) 515-7989 to schedule a free, no-obligation site visit and written estimate, or email romemasonry@ptd.net if you'd rather send photos first.