Albion Contracting

Albion Contracting is a Newburyport painting and carpentry outfit run by owner Greg Patterson, with a genuinely spotless record: all 30 reviews on file are five stars, the company is Better Business Bureau A+ accredited with a profile noting 29 years in business, and it's a certified Lead Safe Renovator — notable given how much of its work is on pre-1978 houses. Its specialty is unmistakable: reviews describe work on an 1800s house's original siding, a 1712 colonial, a 1680 home with centuries-old shiplap boards, and a 250-year-old church ceiling restoration that one review says the team refused to shortcut, prioritizing historical integrity over speed. When one job turned up unexpected old foundation problems, Greg brought in a Master Mason from Ireland he works with rather than papering over the issue. The client relationships run long: one reviewer describes 25-plus years working with Albion across several properties, another eight years and multiple project types. Beyond exterior and interior painting, reviews describe carpentry repairs, a full gut-and-rebuild of a primary bathroom, kitchen cabinet refinishing, plaster repair, and fixing a water-damaged exterior wall that had caused leaky windows and frozen pipes. A 2024 review recounts hiring Albion specifically to fix premature paint peeling left behind by a previous contractor's 2021 rehab job — Greg was upfront about the challenge, and the homeowner says they couldn't have been happier with the result. The same crew names recur across reviews — Bernardo, Travis, Tom, and others — suggesting a stable team rather than rotating subcontractors. For an older or historic home on the North Shore specifically, this reads as one of the strongest-documented specialists in the corpus — reviews consistently describe patience with surprises like rot, old damage, or scope changes rather than papering over them.