Empire Historical Restoration

The one job you can trace tells you what kind of shop this is: a $20,000 emergency facade restoration on Beacon Street in Brookline, permitted and completed in 2024. Empire Historical Restoration works out of Sturbridge, and its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration — number 205435, held under Empire Historical Masonry Restorations, Inc. — is active. The Massachusetts Supplier Diversity Office also lists an active Women Business Enterprise certification for the company, running to June 2029. The work is old-building masonry rather than kitchens and baths. BuildZoom's permit history shows that Brookline facade job as the only permitted project in the past two years, preceded by a 2021 brick-relay permit at the same address that was withdrawn. BuildZoom scores the company 92 and carries no customer reviews at all. Reach further back and the jobs get larger. In March 2015, a trade-press item described the company using a 90-ton rough-terrain crane to clear heavy snow drifts off the roof of Boston University's Agganis Arena. So: credentials that check out against the state registry, a permit record showing real facade and emergency work, and nothing on file from the people who paid for it. If you own a brick or stone building that needs a facade stabilized, repointed or an emergency handled, this is worth a call — but expect to judge them on the site visit and on references you request yourself, and ask for addresses of finished restorations you can go and look at.