Harry W Benson

Harry W Benson runs out of a house on Faun Bar Ave in Winthrop, and nearly everything on file about the operation comes from building permits rather than from customers. Six of them, pulled between 2000 and 2012, scattered across Boston, Everett, Somerville, Waltham, Melrose and Malden — a small, real trail of general contracting work in the northern suburbs, and one that stops more than a decade ago. BuildZoom, the only directory carrying a profile, has collected no customer reviews at all, so there is no public account of what hiring this contractor is actually like. Licensing is the thing to raise on a first call. BuildZoom lists three Massachusetts home improvement contractor registrations under this name — #120171, #203220 and #160223 — plus construction supervisor licence #CS-050180, and shows every one of them as inactive or at one point cancelled. Those are the directory's own records, flagged unverified by BuildZoom itself, not a state confirmation. Ask to see current registration, a construction supervisor licence and proof of insurance before signing anything. That adds up to an unknown quantity: a contractor with a documented but dated permit history and nothing written by the people who hired him. Reasonable to talk to if a neighbor points you there and the paperwork checks out; not a name to hire cold.