Hot Rock Masonry owner, Steve Cohan, was born and raised in New York City during the 1940s and '50s. After attending New York University and Emerson College in Pacific Grove, CA, in the early sixties where he studied film-making and photography, he worked for awhile developing fine art photographs before becoming co-owner of a Greenwich Village antique store specializing in Art Nouveau and art glass.
While homesteading in southwest Virginia during the early 1970s with his wife and three daughters, he apprenticed in the venerable trade of stone mason. Steve opened his own masonry business in 1976 specializing in the traditional dry-stack style for which Virginia is famous. Over a hundred stone projects ranging from bake ovens to historic restorations were completed, including Lexington's Stonewall Jackson House and a 90-foot tall marble minaret for an Islamic mosque.
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