Essex Restoration Inc

Essex Restoration is a residential building and restoration company based at 789 Woburn Street in Wilmington, Massachusetts. By its own account it has served the Greater Boston area for over 30 years with custom home building, renovations, additions and historic preservation, and the Better Business Bureau lists the business as operating since 1995 under the corporate name Devereux Enterprises Inc., with Walter Beebe-Center as president. The company's website names Walter and John as the principals customers deal with. The people who talk about hiring Essex keep coming back to old houses. Reddit commenters have recommended the company in several threads about restoring older homes: in 2025, one homeowner described years of work on their 1845 house in East Somerville and reported that the owner trained at North Bennet Street School and that the company restored the Abigail Adams birthplace; another commenter, describing an 1846 East Somerville house, said the firm did a lot of basic, non-luxury work over several years as well as higher-end restorations, and called the work trustworthy and high quality. In September 2026 a commenter again said Essex did a great job on their 1845 house, while noting that their last project with the company was years ago, so they could not speak to current pricing or whether the company travels as far as Worcester. The one Google review, from May 2026, describes Essex as a top-tier builder for higher-end building and restoration, exceptionally skilled and well run, with close attention to detail. Google shows a 4.7-star average from 10 ratings, and the Better Business Bureau gives the business an A+ grade, though it is not BBB accredited. The work is priced at the high end. The company's Houzz profile lists a typical job cost of $200,000 to $6 million, and BuildZoom records 22 projects, many in the $150,000 to $380,000 range, including bathroom, kitchen and attic renovations in Brookline, Cambridge, Newton, Somerville, Danvers, Topsfield and Manchester. One point is worth confirming before hiring: the company's Houzz profile lists home improvement contractor and construction supervisor licences and lead-safe certification, while its BuildZoom profile shows no licence on file and carries a quality alert for that reason. Asking the company for its current licence numbers settles the question.