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Northshore October 2025
  A summer spent working in Naples, Italy, on a stone church set a course for Gerry Raffaele, owner of Swampscott-based Raffaele Construction—a course from which he has never strayed. “We were taught by people who were taught by the Roman archdiocese,” says the mason, whose work can be seen throughout the North Shore. He learned to cut, shape, and trim stone from Italian master masons. “There is a special technique that we were taught but I don’t want to reveal all my secrets.” Having grown from their modest beginnings as a few-man family operation to the burgeoning business it is today
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