Our story
Walnut Hill Heritage Builders is a high-end residential construction firm in southeastern Pennsylvania, founded in 2026 by Kordel Eberly and Ben Momose. It began the way many of our clients’ projects do: with a remarkable house, a vision for it, and the search for a builder who would care about it as much as we did.
Our name and emblem come from that house, and from the black walnut forest on the hill behind it.
In Berks County stands a house built in 1820 by the son of a Prussian immigrant, whose family’s enterprise built iron furnaces across the county. It was built with evident care, craftsmanship, and ingenuity. Remarkably for its time, it had indoor running water and forced-air heat throughout.
When Kordel Eberly bought the house, he set out to remodel it with the help of a few friends. The deeper the work went, the more he fell in love with its character, its history, and the quality of how it was made. He named it Walnut Hill, for the black walnut forest on the hill that rises around and behind it.
Along the way, the project ran into a problem that owners of exceptional homes know well: not every contractor brought the care the house deserved. Kordel had spent years in construction before moving into the technology sector. Rather than settle, he picked his tools back up.
In 2026 he founded Walnut Hill Heritage Builders with his friend Ben Momose, to be the builder they had been looking for: one that plans carefully, tells the truth about budgets and hidden conditions, and treats every home, whether new or two centuries old, as something worth building well.
We started on your side of the table.
We know what it is like to hand a home you love to a builder and hope they care. That is why our process begins with listening, investigates before it prices, and ends with a complete record of your house and a visit a year later. Heritage in the making is our promise: the home you remodel, expand, or build with us should become the kind of place people stop to admire, for generations.
The founders
Co-Founder
Kordel spent years in the construction field before building a career in the technology sector. Remodeling his own 1820 Berks County home, Walnut Hill, brought him back to the trade, and led him to found Walnut Hill Heritage Builders in 2026.
Co-Founder
Ben co-founded Walnut Hill Heritage Builders with his friend Kordel Eberly in 2026, to build and remodel exceptional homes with the care they deserve.
What we believe
Begin here
We started as homeowners looking for the right builder. Let’s talk about your project, and we’ll tell you candidly how we can help.