Granite Monuments
Hand-cut and hand-lettered upright, slant, and flat memorials in domestic and imported granite. Browse the showroom or design yours from a blank sheet.
Stonecutters since 1887 · West Point, Nebraska
A memorial that
will not lean. Ever.
Every monument we set rests on a 6-foot concrete foundation — the deepest in the trade. If yours ever settles or leans, we straighten it at no charge.
No deposit to start. No charge to design. We'll sketch your memorial first, then quote it.
— Five Generations —
1887
Founded
5
Generations
6′
Foundation Depth
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Workmanship Guarantee
Established 1887
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Five generations of Nebraska families have trusted West Point Monument with the most permanent thing they will ever buy. We sit down with you, listen, sketch, revise, and only then quote. The price you see includes design, lettering, the stone, the foundation, and the placement — nothing “extra” appears later.
Our work is to transform what you cannot say into something that will speak for you for the next hundred years.
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What We Do
Six things, done by the same family, in one shop, since 1887.
No outsourced lettering. No drop-shipped foundations. The hand that sketches your memorial is the hand that sets it in the cemetery.
Bronze Memorials
Solid cast bronze plaques and ornaments — the choice for cemeteries that require flush markers. Weatherproof for a century.
Custom Designs
Etched portraits, religious iconography, family crests, custom shapes — sketched with you, then carved by hand. No template catalogs.
Lettering & Restoration
On-cemetery lettering, dates added to existing family stones, and full restoration of weathered or damaged memorials.
The 6-Foot Foundation
Every monument we set rests on a 6-foot concrete footing. It will not lean. It will not sink. If it ever does, we straighten it free.
Veteran & Civic Memorials
Service memorials, town monuments, school plaques, fundraising pavers — community work built to outlast the families who fund it.
The Foundation Difference
Most leaning
headstones
were set by someone else.
We've repaired thousands of them across eastern Nebraska. The cause is almost always the same: a foundation poured too shallow to hold against the frost.
Most monument companies pour a 12-inch slab and walk away. You can't see what's under the stone — so the corner-cut never shows up until years later, when the ground freezes a few too many times and the memorial begins to tilt.
We dig six feet — below the Nebraska frost line — and pour reinforced concrete squared to the monument footprint. The price we quote always includes the foundation, the lettering, and the placement. There is no unbundling.
If a stone we set ever settles or leans, we will straighten it at no charge. That promise has held since 1887, and it will hold for as long as our shop is open.
A guarantee is only as deep as the footing it sits on.
How We Pour the 6-Foot Footing
Five Generations · One Workshop
We've been doing
this work since
eighteen eighty-seven.
Frank & Rose Alderman opened West Point Marble Works on the northeast corner of Main Street in 1887. The shop has stayed in the family ever since. Five generations later, every stone we letter is still cut, sketched, and set by people whose names are on the door.
— original photograph, Main Street West Point, ca. 1887.
Recent Work
A few of the families we've worked with.
Click through to see how the same stone looks in different finishes, sizes, and lettering styles.
Walk the Yard
See — and touch — over a hundred finished stones.
Our outdoor yard runs the length of the building. Granite of every shape, color, and finish, in the open air, where you can see how it looks in real light. 9–5, Monday through Friday. Other times by appointment. Home visits on request.
Ask about adding a Memorial Website — an NFC tag fitted to the stone that opens a private page of photos, video, and music for the family.
212 W. Sheridan St., West Point, Nebraska 68788
“Our Clients Are Angels.”