Empire Historical Restoration

Empire Historical Restoration works the preservation end of masonry — brick, stone, concrete, stucco and terra cotta, repointing, caulking, washing and waterproofing on buildings that predate the people repairing them. It is based at 3 Podunk Rd in Sturbridge and says it serves Boston and South Boston. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #205435, is active on the state registry under Empire Historical Masonry Restorations, Inc. The state's Supplier Diversity Office separately lists an active Women Business Enterprise certification, and the company describes itself as woman-owned with family members working in the trade. It says its scaffolding work is OSHA-certified. The jobs that surface publicly are the heavy ones. A 2015 industry article described the company bringing in a 90-ton rough-terrain crane to pull snow drifts off the roof of Boston University's Agganis Arena. BuildZoom's permit history shows a $20,000 emergency facade restoration at 1053 Beacon Street in Brookline, completed in 2024, and an earlier 2021 permit for a brick relay at the same address that was withdrawn. This is the call for historic masonry on an older building — a failing facade, crumbling mortar joints, terra cotta or stonework that needs to match what is already there. Ask who will be on site, how the mortar will be matched to the original, and get staging and protection of the surrounding brickwork written into the scope before work starts.