A.J. ROBBINS CO., INC.

Sixty-five years on Pleasant Street, and the trade is a narrow one: wallpaper. A.J. Robbins Co. has hung and sold wallcovering in Worcester since Arthur J. Robbins, a central Massachusetts paperhanger, started the business in 1961 — a history the company tells on its own site, and one the Better Business Bureau's file matches with a 1/1/1961 start date and 65 years in business. The work splits into two halves of the same shop: commercial and residential wallcovering installation, and a designer wallpaper showroom the company says carries books usually seen only at design centers. Its site describes the business as a woman- and veteran-owned business, and a 2020 Worcester Telegram & Gazette feature on local veterans identified Johnson as the owner, writing that she and her husband — whom she met in the military — bought the company from Arthur Robbins in 1995. The customer side is where this thins out. Its BBB page carries an A+ grade with no complaints and no government actions on file, but it also lists no customer reviews at all. Sixty-five years of trading with a blank comment section is not a mark against them; it is simply nothing to weigh, which is why no rating is given here. One scope note worth having straight before you call: this is a wallcovering house, categorized under wallpaper, not a general painting contractor. If your job is commercial wallpaper installation, or you want a showroom to choose a pattern in person, it is a long-established Worcester option. Ask for references from recent jobs and photos of comparable installs — with nothing written by past customers to go on, that legwork falls to you.