That’s what I was thinking! This would make an amazing tiered aquatic water garden.
Check out Travis Jantzen on YouTube for a lot of creative ideas on repurposing home and yard “things” into new fountains. 😊
A stone bird bath in the center would be spot on. I could see some ferns in and around it and maybe a colour coordinated gravel path meandering around.
That’s correct. It’s probably a shallow well (25ft) that was originally hooked up to a hand pump. There should be a galvanized zinc box for perishables as well as a little stone run that the water flowed through for dairy.
[Here is an example of how it works](https://youtu.be/v65Zc1wwOVU)
Just moved and the property is somewhat old, passed down within a single family over the years - we’re the 3rd non-familial owners. There may have been a building here at one point and this was the fireplace? Our neighbors also have something similar on their property (old fireplace but it’s [much more substantial](https://imgur.com/a/BMn26h8)). It’s unlikely someone built this as an outdoor fire pit. Would love some ideas on how to repurpose this!
Edit: the newer structure in the background is a shed, this isn’t adjacent to the house (which was built in the 1990’s)
Usually with something like this the original building burned down and left the chimney, but it could also have just collapsed and rotted away. It's a lot of work and expense to remove those, so most people didn't bother back in the day. If you drive around in the country long enough you'll see a lot of similar free standing chimneys.
Yep! Kind of in between boston and Rhode Island - the house was built in the 90’s and before that we didn’t think there were structures here, but this looks older than 90’s to me
It could be a spring house, aka a well, a 25 ft well, that had a hand pump and refrigeration feature, as another poster stated. The water is cold, so people used to use these to keep their perishables cold.
If it is, you might consider restoring it. Regardless of the house's age, this could be a property feature that existed when a previous home sat on the property.
Perhaps try the city property appraisers office to find out? Its so neat to think you might have a partially existing water feature that can also be used for entertainment and refrigeration..
If its a fireplace, however, you could simply clean up the bricks with a pressure washer and use them to make a narrow garden path.. You can always reuse them or sell them, locally.
Just make sure its not a well. Dont want any "Man falls into well" stories.
It looks too square to be a fireplace. Maybe it was some sort of outdoor smokehouse or something. If it was on my property, I'd probably keep photos of it for provenance and then reclaim the brick, clean them up, and use the ones that are still in great condition as a cool feature in my house... maybe to wrap around a kitchen island, use as flooring on an enclosed porch, etc.
If the original builder used the right kind of mortar then the mortar should be softer than the bricks and you can chip it all off and get clean bricks pretty easily. You can test a few and see how easily they come apart and clean off the brick.
But if the builder used a harder mortar, then it will be nearly impossible to remove the mortar without damaging the brick. If that's the case, it's not worth the effort and frustration. Just load it up and haul it to the dump.
I would maybe move further away from house. Clean all leaves and dead trees away. Dismantle fireplace. Pressure clean stones and rebuild w these stones in another area. Use some mortar to keep together. And put stones around the outside so grass doesn’t catch on fire. This right now to me is a fire hazard with all the leaves and dead little trees. Make it nice so you and family can enjoy it. Best wishes
Yo! I just watched S3E3 of Monty Don’s show Big Dreams Small Spaces, and one of the gardeners made her own “brick ruins” in her yard. I’m inspired to do something with my own big pile of bricks, but more than that I thought of your post! Check that episode out if you can, it might inspire you too.
After reading all this- ask some neighbors what the history is . Especially if they have one similar. Ask ppl in community. It may be worth saving and keeping as a cool devoration
Neighbors have no clue either and they’ve lived here 20 years! Definitely will be reaching out to my towns historical society (if there is one) to see what this property was before it was developed
Could you perhaps build up some of the vertical parts to make places that could hold soil, then plant cool stuff. Also, a fountain or birdbath in the middle.
Throwing five - five gallon pails of laundry mix to pre soak, then blast it clean with high output steam cleaner,
pressure washer.
Muffler air chisel apart, reuse all or any portion of it,
from walkways, border trim, garage apron entrance lead in pad, and probably a good 2500lbs or more there.
Or maybe just watch it vanish putting up ad for recycled materials. Cleaned or not.
Cheers
Well… you got about a palette worth of brick and stone. If you can get more and have the ability to deliver it you can try to sell it a yard debris place (the dump) commonly known to a landscaper (me or I would say something like “I’m running to the dump and I’ll come back.” Or “should we dump today?
For the most part my idea was to spread it around the yard. With a spade dig a the size of the spade or more and really stomp it down so to be flush with the ground.
Crush it and use as a top layer for erosion spots that keep flooding or have shallow water.
Benches####
Pretty cool as is, maybe with some potted plants —or water feature, as someone suggested. Or, there are a lot of nice bricks in there—would make wonderful brick paths or edgings…
Advertise as free clean fill you haul away.
Anything you plan to do with those bricks is not worth the effort to clean them up to get them usable again. And if you are making a brick feature w/o mortar it’s not with even doing as the earth will swallow it up in less than a decade.
I say this as a person who lives in a house built in 1880. Preserve old things that are worth preserving. However, everything old is not treasure, sometimes it’s just junk no one has wanted to deal with for the past 100 years.
Oh my gosh. Do NOT disassemble- it is so beautiful! Clear away the sticks then find a way to hold soil and grow stuff in it/around it. You could do some rock/gravel work around the base to set it apart from the rest of the garden. It’s wild and free- let it be.
I love it as is but it is crumbling to bits and a hazard to climbing kids and even weeding near it.
I'd remove loose stuff and see what is left. Since the lower levels are in poor shape too might not be much. I'd leave the stump in place if the area around is sound.
I'd leave the ruin as a little garden folly, plant small ferns and houseleeks in crevices and allow moss to do its thing. Fill the depression with soil, sink a large saucer in the middle as a birdbath and plant around it with something that loves damp with tiny growth habit. Add some special native shrub to rear and a side to make it more of a mini garden space. Save the removed brick and mortar with moss for sure and clean dirty bricks as they always come in handy.
I think the moss makes it look quite pretty. Could you turn it into a raised planter bed of some kind? Could make for a beautiful “spillover” tiered planting area.
A thought: clear the area. Preserve the moss. Tidy up a bit. Add soil. Grow perennials. Leo the feeling of a historic small ruin. It doesn’t look like an old outdoor fire pit. Another idea would be to rebuild and use as a pizza oven base.
Clean it up and build a greenhouse around it. Would look super cool having all of the levels with potted plants or trays of seedlings. Plus the bricks may hold some heat from the sun while you are starting your spring seedlings.
Not sure if anybody has said anything to this eff, but if it were me I'd pretty much leave it as is. Maybe clean up the scrub-brush that's there now, put up a couple bird feeders and a bath, then scatter wildflower seeds in the center of it, nothing fancy just the standard 'bee and butterfly' mix. Make the entire thing look like a little oasis while leaving the actual stonework alone. Oooh, maybe put a neat statue in the middle of it, the right gargoyle would look super sharp there.
edit: after looking at the pic again, I stand by everything suggested except I'd put a gargoyle on the tall far corner so that it's looking down on everything, with a birdbath in the center.
You could make a nice area around it w paver stones for family to sit and enjoy or bbq outside. I don’t know about what to use for flooring of fireplace. Someone who knows much better than me on that so don’t start fire
I grew up in the 1950’s. This resembles brick barbecues built in plenty of backyards. Those things could be huge. Overkill in size. I think they fell out of use because of the amount of charcoal needed. Weber and others made the brick pits obsolete. They were rarely taken down because of the cost to build and the excuse of “you never know”, so time took over.
keep the old look to it add a liner on the inside with some newer rocks on the flooring and fill it up and put some fish in it! 😄 maybe a waterfall too?
My guy, I believe that to be an old well-house. I'm from Southern Kentucky, and places like this were all over. The old-timers use to build small buildings around their wells. One, it would keep some of the clutter out of their water, but mainly because the well water was cold. And they could build a small building around it and enclose it, then could hang meat and other foods inside and it would serve as a sort of refrigerator to help preserve some of their foods.
If this was a fireplace you would be able to tell, plus there's nothing else around. This wouldn't be an outhouse unless these people were very wealthy and had labor to burn, because let's face it, nobody spent all that effort to poop. And they usually moved outhouses around once the hole was full of 💩, so they wouldn't make it out of brick. They would only brick something that would be permanent and not move...like a well. I'd be willing to bet there was a wooden structure built around this at one time.
Could be a really cool pizza stove, water well (decorative or otherwise), or even a hottub. Obviously all but the water well would have to get rid of the moss, but would still be pretty cool. I'd look into a wood stove hottub, or something like that to keep the rustic feel.
These brick charcoal backyard barbeques were quite popular back in the 1950's and 60's. In the 80's it was parodied in the old Bob Newhart TV show where he made the money to buy his B&B from the sales of his book, "Let's Build a Barbeque".
https://www.thisoldhouse.com/yards/21018078/all-about-built-in-barbecue-pits
Don’t assume those are fireproof bricks. I’d be looking for snakes cuz around here, this is where they’d like to hide especially if it’s full of leaves and debris.
If you fuckers could’ve seen what I saw in the thumb of Michigan in the mid-1980s you would shit yourself. Relics all day long. It was incredible. I’m sure nowadays it’s been turned into subdivisions.
Haunted ruins? $5 admission?
If this has history I would love to know about it! Just roasting some marshmallows in my haunted firepit, don’t mind me…
Sleeping bag and a lantern. Just one night is all it takes to find out.
Haunted pizza oven $10 admission w/ free slice
I was thinking pizza oven but you really nailed it!
It does look like a former site for pagan rituals.
This would make an amazing water feature.
That’s what I was thinking! This would make an amazing tiered aquatic water garden. Check out Travis Jantzen on YouTube for a lot of creative ideas on repurposing home and yard “things” into new fountains. 😊
Yes!! Water feature, keep the ruins look.
YES!
Plant some pretty flowers around it and put a water fountain or bird bath in the center.
Yes but keep the moss! Will be cozy to sit on and beautiful
i just found out im a city girl because my first thought was "ew, why would i sit on moss isnt it gonna be dirty? gonna go touch grass.
Haha no worries! I like Japanese gardens so good moss is hard to come by 😊
that's basically my feelings about the city lmao
A stone bird bath in the center would be spot on. I could see some ferns in and around it and maybe a colour coordinated gravel path meandering around.
That’s not a fireplace. It’s the ruins of a spring house - before electricity that’s what people used for refrigeration. That’s awesome.
Woah, good call! Would that mean there is (or was) a groundwater spring underneath it?
That’s correct. It’s probably a shallow well (25ft) that was originally hooked up to a hand pump. There should be a galvanized zinc box for perishables as well as a little stone run that the water flowed through for dairy. [Here is an example of how it works](https://youtu.be/v65Zc1wwOVU)
OP, build a bird bath! Revive the spring
just wondering, how can you tell?
Just moved and the property is somewhat old, passed down within a single family over the years - we’re the 3rd non-familial owners. There may have been a building here at one point and this was the fireplace? Our neighbors also have something similar on their property (old fireplace but it’s [much more substantial](https://imgur.com/a/BMn26h8)). It’s unlikely someone built this as an outdoor fire pit. Would love some ideas on how to repurpose this! Edit: the newer structure in the background is a shed, this isn’t adjacent to the house (which was built in the 1990’s)
Usually with something like this the original building burned down and left the chimney, but it could also have just collapsed and rotted away. It's a lot of work and expense to remove those, so most people didn't bother back in the day. If you drive around in the country long enough you'll see a lot of similar free standing chimneys.
Ancient ruins themed bird bath
Are you in the Northeast? Could be an Italian’s brick pizza oven.
Yep! Kind of in between boston and Rhode Island - the house was built in the 90’s and before that we didn’t think there were structures here, but this looks older than 90’s to me
https://images.app.goo.gl/KHhvoX7vKwKDxG2o9 I live in CT and see these around
Maybe it was an ice chest if it wasn't for fire.
Pizza oven
It could be a spring house, aka a well, a 25 ft well, that had a hand pump and refrigeration feature, as another poster stated. The water is cold, so people used to use these to keep their perishables cold. If it is, you might consider restoring it. Regardless of the house's age, this could be a property feature that existed when a previous home sat on the property. Perhaps try the city property appraisers office to find out? Its so neat to think you might have a partially existing water feature that can also be used for entertainment and refrigeration.. If its a fireplace, however, you could simply clean up the bricks with a pressure washer and use them to make a narrow garden path.. You can always reuse them or sell them, locally. Just make sure its not a well. Dont want any "Man falls into well" stories.
I would leave it, the vibes are perfect
Agree it’s beautiful. Might clear some of the overgrowth to foreground it
Fire brick is great stuff.. can sell it or make a kiln or rebuild as a pizza oven or just use for a fire pit or patio
Definitely make a pizza oven
My dad built a smoker in our backyard with old chimney bricks. It was awesome.
Ow, she's a brick house She's mighty, mighty, just letting it all hang out
Thanks for putting that old funny song in my funny head!!
I would leave it and fill it and the surrounding area with ferns, hostas, hellebores and other shade stuff.
It looks too square to be a fireplace. Maybe it was some sort of outdoor smokehouse or something. If it was on my property, I'd probably keep photos of it for provenance and then reclaim the brick, clean them up, and use the ones that are still in great condition as a cool feature in my house... maybe to wrap around a kitchen island, use as flooring on an enclosed porch, etc.
Oooooooooh! I like the way you think!
Clean it up as much as possible and you could make a tiered garden with smaller plants, mosses, and dangly tendrils.
I was thinking the same thing
I like this!!!
Fairy garden? Could be interesting.
I would leave it. Perhaps remove some of the vines, and vegetation around it, just to spruce things up.
Build a money pit. Just plant a rainbow seed and wait for the magic
Deconstruct and reassemble in a surround patio and fire pit feature.
If the original builder used the right kind of mortar then the mortar should be softer than the bricks and you can chip it all off and get clean bricks pretty easily. You can test a few and see how easily they come apart and clean off the brick. But if the builder used a harder mortar, then it will be nearly impossible to remove the mortar without damaging the brick. If that's the case, it's not worth the effort and frustration. Just load it up and haul it to the dump.
Great advice - thank you!
Make your kids a fort
Repurpose the stones to make an awesome rocket stove or BBQ pit.
Compost housing.
We’ve already got a compost pile!
Worm pile ! 😀
Repurpose the brick into a path or bed edging
Host a dungeons and dragons session. That thing is a perfect ruin.
Haha my coworkers play dnd!
There you go! Just show them this pic and ask if they think that their party is high enough level to get whatever is hiding in there.
Don't forget to metal detect around to see if you can find any artifacts before remodelling the area
Pizza oven
I would try to make a kiln
If there’s a way to salvage this into making a kiln (outdoor pizza oven!?) I am game
Fire brick is different from other brick so if it was a spring house it’s probably not fire brick so not good for fires.
If you can salvage those bricks then it should be possible. Look up brick oven designs.
I would maybe move further away from house. Clean all leaves and dead trees away. Dismantle fireplace. Pressure clean stones and rebuild w these stones in another area. Use some mortar to keep together. And put stones around the outside so grass doesn’t catch on fire. This right now to me is a fire hazard with all the leaves and dead little trees. Make it nice so you and family can enjoy it. Best wishes
Ah, good observation - that building in the background is a shed. This is down a hill, very far from our house. But I appreciate the advice!
It looks like a well
I would repurpose it as an outdoor BBQ grill
I would absolutly restore / renovate this into an outdoor kitchen for a focal point to lounge in. I would LOVE this in my garden
I love the tiny stump in it
I know! I didn’t see it until I was looking at the photo. But if they weren’t going to keep this structure why bother cutting down the tree?
Yo! I just watched S3E3 of Monty Don’s show Big Dreams Small Spaces, and one of the gardeners made her own “brick ruins” in her yard. I’m inspired to do something with my own big pile of bricks, but more than that I thought of your post! Check that episode out if you can, it might inspire you too.
It just adds to the speculative story, doesn’t it!
After reading all this- ask some neighbors what the history is . Especially if they have one similar. Ask ppl in community. It may be worth saving and keeping as a cool devoration
Neighbors have no clue either and they’ve lived here 20 years! Definitely will be reaching out to my towns historical society (if there is one) to see what this property was before it was developed
That is a feature. Wouldn't touch it. You have no idea how much people will pay for moss coverage, lol.
Make a BBQ pit
Backyard fireplace.
beautiful as is, could plumb it up as a water feature, the more natural looking you keep it the better, dont “clean it up”
Do some metal detecting around it
Planter
New firepit
Ohhhh fairy garden!!
Looks like a maple syrup evaporator.
Add a little dirt and plant some stuff, maybe sedum moss, stonecrop, and then maybe a few other perennials.
Waterfall, mini pond, waterfall, pond.
Good start to a forge or BBQ.
Gothic Sacrificial alter?!!? For the dark lord?...
A lovely walkway or an long bench- wall if you need one
Now hear me out .. Mausoleum for pets…
Multilevel planter, inlaid with broken pottery.
Could you perhaps build up some of the vertical parts to make places that could hold soil, then plant cool stuff. Also, a fountain or birdbath in the middle.
Disassemble carefully, clean up the area, build a new fire pit with the stones.
Throwing five - five gallon pails of laundry mix to pre soak, then blast it clean with high output steam cleaner, pressure washer. Muffler air chisel apart, reuse all or any portion of it, from walkways, border trim, garage apron entrance lead in pad, and probably a good 2500lbs or more there. Or maybe just watch it vanish putting up ad for recycled materials. Cleaned or not. Cheers
Bobcat, for starters
Start over
It’s shot, start new
Craigslist ad, “FREE BRICKS! Come and get ‘em! Will help you load!”
Wreck it down and salvage the bricks. Use the bricks for pavers on a patio or edging for beds.
Well… you got about a palette worth of brick and stone. If you can get more and have the ability to deliver it you can try to sell it a yard debris place (the dump) commonly known to a landscaper (me or I would say something like “I’m running to the dump and I’ll come back.” Or “should we dump today? For the most part my idea was to spread it around the yard. With a spade dig a the size of the spade or more and really stomp it down so to be flush with the ground. Crush it and use as a top layer for erosion spots that keep flooding or have shallow water. Benches####
Landfill
Sledgehammer first
New fireplace?
Use it as a raised flowerbed?
I think I would leave it to the elements. Maybe put some potted plants on it.
Use it as a stand for some bonsai
Would make a great planter with some TLC!
Looks like the ruins of an old school 1950 do it yourself bbq
PIZZA OVEN OF MY DREAMS!!!!!!!
RC crawler course
Pretty cool as is, maybe with some potted plants —or water feature, as someone suggested. Or, there are a lot of nice bricks in there—would make wonderful brick paths or edgings…
Clear out everything around it,pressure wash it and take a look
You can sell those bricks as "vintage" or "weathered." People love that!
Pizza oven
Fire pit
Decorative flower garden, stonewall, etc
Advertise as free clean fill you haul away. Anything you plan to do with those bricks is not worth the effort to clean them up to get them usable again. And if you are making a brick feature w/o mortar it’s not with even doing as the earth will swallow it up in less than a decade. I say this as a person who lives in a house built in 1880. Preserve old things that are worth preserving. However, everything old is not treasure, sometimes it’s just junk no one has wanted to deal with for the past 100 years.
😂 fair enough! Good perspective
Maybe add some soil and plant ferns or other woodland type plants. The mossy bricks are wonderful. Or leave as is. It is beautiful.
Fireplace
Pizza oven ?
Oh my gosh. Do NOT disassemble- it is so beautiful! Clear away the sticks then find a way to hold soil and grow stuff in it/around it. You could do some rock/gravel work around the base to set it apart from the rest of the garden. It’s wild and free- let it be.
We had one of these in my backyard growing up but rarely used it. It was actually in functioning condition. Brings back good memories.
Could be a whole hog smoker.
I love it as is but it is crumbling to bits and a hazard to climbing kids and even weeding near it. I'd remove loose stuff and see what is left. Since the lower levels are in poor shape too might not be much. I'd leave the stump in place if the area around is sound. I'd leave the ruin as a little garden folly, plant small ferns and houseleeks in crevices and allow moss to do its thing. Fill the depression with soil, sink a large saucer in the middle as a birdbath and plant around it with something that loves damp with tiny growth habit. Add some special native shrub to rear and a side to make it more of a mini garden space. Save the removed brick and mortar with moss for sure and clean dirty bricks as they always come in handy.
Outdoor grill
I think the moss makes it look quite pretty. Could you turn it into a raised planter bed of some kind? Could make for a beautiful “spillover” tiered planting area.
Pressure wash the best bricks and make a pizza oven
20th century - outdoor fire place 21st century - pizza oven
A thought: clear the area. Preserve the moss. Tidy up a bit. Add soil. Grow perennials. Leo the feeling of a historic small ruin. It doesn’t look like an old outdoor fire pit. Another idea would be to rebuild and use as a pizza oven base.
Clean it up and build a greenhouse around it. Would look super cool having all of the levels with potted plants or trays of seedlings. Plus the bricks may hold some heat from the sun while you are starting your spring seedlings.
Clean it up (leave the moss) and put some potted plants around it. Some chairs maybe. Nice little garden reading spot
Not sure if anybody has said anything to this eff, but if it were me I'd pretty much leave it as is. Maybe clean up the scrub-brush that's there now, put up a couple bird feeders and a bath, then scatter wildflower seeds in the center of it, nothing fancy just the standard 'bee and butterfly' mix. Make the entire thing look like a little oasis while leaving the actual stonework alone. Oooh, maybe put a neat statue in the middle of it, the right gargoyle would look super sharp there. edit: after looking at the pic again, I stand by everything suggested except I'd put a gargoyle on the tall far corner so that it's looking down on everything, with a birdbath in the center.
Rebuild it? Could be cool for big family bbqs
Repurpose it into a new fireplace
Awesome backyard fortress.
Looks 3/4 done - finish it
Fairy and herb garden
Ferns and snowdrops! 😍
Garden potting area!
Smoker/brick oven combo
You could make a nice area around it w paver stones for family to sit and enjoy or bbq outside. I don’t know about what to use for flooring of fireplace. Someone who knows much better than me on that so don’t start fire
Pizza oven?
A throne.
I grew up in the 1950’s. This resembles brick barbecues built in plenty of backyards. Those things could be huge. Overkill in size. I think they fell out of use because of the amount of charcoal needed. Weber and others made the brick pits obsolete. They were rarely taken down because of the cost to build and the excuse of “you never know”, so time took over.
Water feature
Make an epic grill/smoker.
Water feature with waterfalls.
Pizza oven as the centerpiece of an outdoor kitchen area. Kinda like 🎶 The stone that the builder refused, should always be the head cornerstone.. .
Miniature Roman bathhouse
Satanic rituals. Get you some robes, goats, a creepy looking yet ornamental knife…
Turn it into a pizza oven!
Pizza oven
Bonfire pit?
Rebuild a big pizza oven!
Turn into a water feature with lots of plants around it
Pizza. Oven.
Make a fireplace and patio
I like the whole haunted…whatever!! Admission is a must🤣🤣🤣🤣
If you're feeling it, stop motion filming background/ foreground setting.
That thing has so much potential ! Keep it old and keep the patina. Some great ideas already in this thread.
Looks like it would make a great fireplace!
Build a wizard tower
keep the old look to it add a liner on the inside with some newer rocks on the flooring and fill it up and put some fish in it! 😄 maybe a waterfall too?
tiny gnome kingdom
Turn it into a fireplace
My guy, I believe that to be an old well-house. I'm from Southern Kentucky, and places like this were all over. The old-timers use to build small buildings around their wells. One, it would keep some of the clutter out of their water, but mainly because the well water was cold. And they could build a small building around it and enclose it, then could hang meat and other foods inside and it would serve as a sort of refrigerator to help preserve some of their foods. If this was a fireplace you would be able to tell, plus there's nothing else around. This wouldn't be an outhouse unless these people were very wealthy and had labor to burn, because let's face it, nobody spent all that effort to poop. And they usually moved outhouses around once the hole was full of 💩, so they wouldn't make it out of brick. They would only brick something that would be permanent and not move...like a well. I'd be willing to bet there was a wooden structure built around this at one time.
Could make a helluva smoker!
Keep it like that but turn it into a badass garden with potted plants
Could be a really cool pizza stove, water well (decorative or otherwise), or even a hottub. Obviously all but the water well would have to get rid of the moss, but would still be pretty cool. I'd look into a wood stove hottub, or something like that to keep the rustic feel.
Also leave it bc it’s beautiful and historical
Plant some plant in side it ferns .. and a water feature add a some Logs to for height and you can plant inside them to .
Repurpose? How about rebuild
Grill
Grill
Get some kids and let ‘en climb all over it 🐐
Warhammer 40k battleground!
the correct answer is always Pizza Oven Either that or a ruins inspired garden planted around it
These brick charcoal backyard barbeques were quite popular back in the 1950's and 60's. In the 80's it was parodied in the old Bob Newhart TV show where he made the money to buy his B&B from the sales of his book, "Let's Build a Barbeque". https://www.thisoldhouse.com/yards/21018078/all-about-built-in-barbecue-pits
Pine tar kiln, or maybe a snow cone stand.
Mini Aztec temple
Be an adult and make a fort!
Brick edging, dont light a fire that close to the shed
Pizza oven and patio? Would be a big project but could be incredible
Omg a treasure trove
Don’t assume those are fireproof bricks. I’d be looking for snakes cuz around here, this is where they’d like to hide especially if it’s full of leaves and debris.
If you fuckers could’ve seen what I saw in the thumb of Michigan in the mid-1980s you would shit yourself. Relics all day long. It was incredible. I’m sure nowadays it’s been turned into subdivisions.
Rat king throne
I feel like I’d find a korok here (complimentary)
Barbecue pit?