Dodge & Dodge Contractors

Two Newburyport Preservation Trust awards for exterior restoration is the one distinguishing thing on file about Dodge & Dodge General Contractors — a claim the company makes on its own Houzz profile, and the clearest signal of where its interest lies. It works out of 750 Main St. in West Newbury and says it has been going more than ten years, taking on full-scale restoration, high-end kitchens and baths, additions, custom cabinetry and outdoor spaces. The stated service list runs long — general contracting, framing, siding and cedar siding, windows and doors, decks and porches, basements, garages, tile, countertops, stairs, trim, crown moulding, wainscoting, wine cellars. Its named coverage runs across fifteen towns from Haverhill and Georgetown out to Newburyport, Salisbury and over the border to Portsmouth and New Castle, New Hampshire. The single project it shows is at Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, which fits the restoration story. What's missing is anyone else's account of the work. No customer has reviewed it on the profile, and nothing else about it surfaced during this scan. That isn't a mark against the company — plenty of good restoration contractors work entirely on referral — but it does mean everything above comes from the company itself, and the awards included. If you have an older house on the north shore or in the Newburyport area and need period exterior work done sympathetically, this is a reasonable firm to put on a shortlist. Ask them to name the two Preservation Trust awards and the projects that won them, get their Massachusetts construction supervisor and home improvement contractor registration numbers to check with Consumer Affairs, and ask for two recent clients you can call.