This was a satisfying DIY project at home.  We could not afford a real stone fireplace but these concrete dry stack blocks look great.  I did use stones from the property to mortar a hearth- complete with a fossil, granite , limestone and shale.  The glaciers picked up so much rock as it cruised through this old lake bed, that it dropped so many varieties into our earth! 

http://fusionstone.ca/en/dry-stack/