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The Housewright Company is a Beverly-based carpentry and custom-remodeling business founded by Michael Doiron in 1997, holding an active Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor license (146121) verified against the state registry. The company works on kitchen and bath remodels, additions and whole-home renovations, with permit records showing jobs concentrated in Manchester, Beverly, Groveland and Newburyport between 2009 and 2025, including several projects in the $180,000 to $830,000 range. A 2023 Reddit post from r/Thisoldhouse describes a return visit to a fire-damaged Newburyport home that had been rebuilt into a roughly $600,000 project, crediting builder Michael Doiron for the work — the same house and project featured earlier in This Old House magazine. The company also self-reports winning the Mary Connelly Preservation Award for restoring a first-period saltbox on Argilla Road in Ipswich. The written reviews on file are dated 2013 through 2015 — three total, rated 4 and 5 stars — and describe Mike and his crew as prompt, honest and detail-oriented across repeat projects for the same clients, with one reviewer describing hiring the company for multiple projects on the same home over several years. For a substantial custom build, historic restoration, or high-end kitchen or addition project on the North Shore, this is a licensed, long-established carpentry outfit with a documented history of large, complex jobs; given how dated the written reviews are, ask for recent project references directly.