Steve and Melody Brenna combined masonry and marketing in a company called Architectural Artifacts in Dixon, New Mexico in 1989. Roman Ruins, large landscape containers and structures were designed, built and installed.

The company manufactured amazingly accurate reproductions of antiquities such as Greek or Roman temple ruins and fragments. Using cast pumice and concrete, Arch Art created everything from load-bearing columns to French village square fountains to old Spanish courtyards to dining tables of temple ruin pieces held together with beautifully rusted wrought iron. Always, the patina is ancient, encrusted, worn. Brenna was, and still is known for the uncanny ability to reproduce any stone finish.

Brenna's cast concrete and pumice columns, capitals, cornices, balustrades, fountains, and furniture were sold across the country via an importer of authentic Mediterranean antiquities, Civilization Gallery located by the Crescent in Dallas, Texas.

"Architectural Artifacts appear to have been built on a historical site, for Brenna, a veteran landscape engineer, crafts everything to fit exactly and installs everything himself. His quietly lovely outdoor structures are crafted with a substance and solidity to last for generations and a classical look that says they already have." said longtime client Luit Huizenga.

The company moved to Amarillo, Texas, birthplace of Melody Brenna in 1995 where they began designing fireplaces, extraordinary trims and additional landscape elements. Steve Brenna decided to change the name to Milestone Architectural Ornamentation, Inc. to commemorate the leap from one of a kind art projects to a fully dimensioned manufacturing operation.

Through word of mouth, press in nationwide magazines and happy clients, Milestone's reputation as the high quality art house in the stone industry continued to develop. In 1998, the Milestone website was launched and sales doubled in 1999 as a result.