Dana G Mace

Read the permit trail and a picture forms: Dana G Mace works on Marblehead's own houses, mostly a few thousand dollars at a time. A window swapped for a true-divided-light match with a few bad clapboards replaced. A front stoop and stairs rebuilt to code. Deck railings on two levels. A bulkhead torn out and rebuilt to the same footprint. A cellar stair turned around so the basement was easier to get into. He operates from Jersey Street in Marblehead, and 11 permitted projects sit on file, nearly all of them within the town. The largest of them, in 2021, was a $34,400 interior job: a wall taken out between the living and dining rooms, the bathroom remodelled, two closets added. Older permits reach into Salem and Peabody, and a small deck in Wakefield was filed in 2024. That kind of work — old clapboard, true divided lights, stoops rebuilt to current code — is what a coastal historic town needs, and the permit record suggests he has been doing it here a long time. What is missing is anyone's account of hiring him: no reviews turned up on any platform, so there is nothing here about scheduling, pricing, or how a job goes when something goes wrong. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration (#115007) and a construction supervisor licence (CS-024797) for him and says it saw both active in June 2026, but that is the directory's own report rather than a state confirmation. He is the right sort of call for the small, exacting exterior and structural repairs an older Marblehead house keeps needing. Confirm both licence numbers yourself with the Office of Consumer Affairs and the Department of Public Safety, ask for a couple of nearby addresses from the last year, and get the scope written down — with no written record from past customers, the references are doing all the work.