Hallmark Masonry & Chimney Specialist

In November 2024 a Martha's Vineyard homeowner was told the island's chimney man could not get to their chimney for a year, started phoning off-island on a Saturday morning, and ended up with Hallmark on the job. That is the kind of call this Boston masonry outfit takes: chimneys leaning, cracked, or venting so badly the furnace quits mid-blizzard, which is what one customer described happening in a freezing January before Hallmark made the repairs. In late 2024 another customer paid $3,500 to have the top of a three-flue chimney rebuilt. They wrote that they had gathered four other quotes because Hallmark's looked high, and every one came back higher, several of them for an incomplete job. Their one-line verdict doubles as the practical note for anyone calling: quality work, responsive, fair price, busy, so plan ahead. The written history runs from 2021 through July 2025 and is five stars throughout, 36 reviews across Google and Thumbtack, with a 5.0 Google average from 37 ratings and an A grade from the Better Business Bureau on a file opened in November 2024. Chimney work comes up over and over: a 2021 customer had two chimneys on an antique farmhouse rebuilt from a boom lift 55 feet up and named Patrick and Deo for keeping in touch; a June 2025 homeowner braced for a whole new roof was told the trouble was the chimney instead. Foundations and water are the other half of the business. A July 2025 customer had a cracked, bowing basement wall shored up on schedule and got a check-in visit a week later. In October 2024 a homeowner had a French drain installed and the stone foundations repointed at two properties, and a Thumbtack reviewer that same month described Johnathan and his team waterproofing a basement foundation and explaining each step as they went. Two things to sort out before booking. The sources disagree about size: the Thumbtack profile claims 22 years in business and ten employees, while the BBB file lists one employee at a downtown Boston suite rather than the company's own address. And a run of short, near-identical five-star posts from March through June 2025 talks about whole-home construction, new houses built to a family's vision, which is not the masonry, chimney and foundation work the company's own listings and its detailed reviews describe. For a chimney rebuild, repointing, or a cracked or leaking foundation around greater Boston, this is a sensible call; customers writing through 2024 and 2025 were consistent about fair pricing and about crews that cleaned up after themselves. Get the quote in writing, ask who will be on site, and start the conversation early, because a late-2024 customer found them booked up.