Cobblestone Group Inc.

Cobblestone's crews take on the jobs that get worse once the walls come down. A December 2016 reviewer hired them to ready a 1952 family house for sale, and the work ran more than a year as structural problems surfaced: a third story with two bedrooms and another full bath, an expanded master with a new bathroom, new sewage, gas and water lines, a re-cut driveway, gas heat and central AC, a gutted basement turned into a family room — and, that reviewer wrote, the house still kept its original shape and appearance. The company works out of 29 Massachusetts Ave in Boston and says it has been building and managing construction for over 20 years, from Boston to Cape Cod, with a stated specialty in historic renovation and residential waterfront development. Its Houzz portfolio runs the same way: South End and historic brownstones, a Jamaica Plain house, a Barnstable waterfront estate. The praise is consistent in kind. An architect at Studio DRAW, writing in December 2016 during a large Boston gut renovation, called them team players who produce results. A January 2017 client described a bathroom where demolition turned up the usual old-building surprises and the finish still landed. A 2016 homeowner had them repair fire damage and upgrade a kitchen, and noted they cleaned up every day. On Google in September 2019, a kitchen-remodel customer singled out the backsplash. The one bad account is also the most recent, and it is worth reading before signing. In July 2021 a customer wrote that repointing on their brownstone was, in their words, beyond terrible, and that when they asked for the mistakes to be fixed they were told the person they had dealt with did not own the company — his wife, an attorney, did — and to take it up with her. Masonry repointing is a different craft from the interior renovation the rest of the record describes; if your job is exterior masonry, ask who actually performs it and how a callback gets handled. Licensing is worth a direct question. BuildZoom lists an active Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #176274, at this same address and phone but under the name Cobblestone Management Group Inc, and the Houzz profile shows unlimited construction supervisor and home improvement contractor credentials with no numbers attached. Ask which legal entity signs your contract and get its registration number. For a full gut, an addition, or a period house that needs an experienced hand, the older accounts here are detailed and unusually consistent. Ask for two jobs finished in the past couple of years, and put the entity and the scope in writing.