About

It all began in 1907, when Antonio T. Petrillo, a stonecutter from Naples, founded Petrillo Stone Corporation. Three generations later, grandsons Ralph and Frank Petrillo, brothers and co-owners, are keeping the legacy alive and thriving, ensuring that the family name remains synonymous with excellence in all aspects of stonework.

Petrillo imports only the highest quality stones, shipped from destinations that range the globe from Vermont to Tennessee, Canada, Brazil, Finland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, China, and Zimbabwe – “And that’s just the half of it,” says Ralph Petrillo.

All fabrication is performed on-site in the company’s state-of-the-art facility where ancient techniques developed over 2,000 years ago work alongside the latest innovations in cutting edge technology.  Wireless control overhead cranes give Petrillo Stone the unique capability of working with slabs weighing  up to 20 tons.  Computer software creates sketches; digital photographs are used to produce customized blueprints. Computer numeric control (CNC) machinery equipped with diamond saws hews the immense slabs. The stone is then worked on, sometimes sandblasted for a rougher look, other times sanded, sometimes evened out by an 80-year-old stone planing machine, then brush polished to a lustrous sheen. An internationally culled team of artisans cut and chisel a wide variety of intricate objects -- all from  balusters, bases, columns, copings, cornices, dentals, headers, panels, quoins, railings, and sills to watertables – and much more,  and create highly detailed, ornate designs, laboring with painstaking precision until every inch has attained the desired peak of perfection.
“We work on each piece knowing that we are creating something that will span the ages. It gives us a perspective that is both humbling and inspiring,” says Ralph Petrillo. “I know that it would have made my grandfather proud, and that’s the greatest reward for us.”