Charles E Knight Jr

Two teardowns in two years, both in Marblehead, both replaced with new four-bedroom houses — $765,000 on Sparhawk Terrace in 2024, $515,000 on Puritan Road in 2023, the second built back on the existing foundation. That is the top of what Charles E Knight Jr does, and it is unusual company for a one-man Salem listing. The rest of the permit record fills in the range. A $150,000 garage, deck and porch addition on Maverick Street, completed in 2021. A $109,500 renovation on Selman Street in 2023 that opened a wall into the family room, added two exterior doors and new granite front stairs, and turned a second-floor half bath into a laundry. A $68,000 Hardie siding and PVC trim job on Saturn Avenue in 2024 — where the permit text itself notes the licensed electrician would pull his own permit, which is the right way round. Fourteen permits in all, four of them in the last three years. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration for him and marks it active as of March 2026. That is the directory's listing rather than a confirmation, so get the number and check it with the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation — particularly since demolition-and-rebuild work also calls for a construction supervisor licence, and none appears here. The other thing to know is that nobody has written a word about hiring him. No reviews, anywhere. A 2023 exploratory demolition permit on Selman Street is also listed as suspended, which on a small preliminary permit usually means it was superseded by the full permit that followed — worth a question, not an alarm. If you are planning a Marblehead rebuild or a substantial addition, this permit history is real evidence of exactly that kind of work at exactly that scale. Ask for references from the Sparhawk Terrace or Puritan Road builds, and get the licence numbers in writing.