04/17/2026
Last month Upstate Chimney was spotted at Warrior Horse in Louisiana with other industry friends from across the country for a charity workshop and continued hands-on training in masonry. We built many amazing structures for veterans and first responders to enjoy while at this therapy program, including a PriorFire fireplace, rocket stove heated benches, a grill and a pizza oven! The black and white brick you see are Morse code messages, words of inspiration meaningful to the program imbedded into the structures. The engineer of this project, Chris Prior, is a dear friend and mentor of ours- we soak up every morsel of proper masonry technique and skill building that we can from this industry legend! We also learned from and built relationships with other industry leaders in the chimney and masonry industries. It was an experience we will never forget!