Lantern Construction

Lantern Construction is Jack Horgan's Gloucester outfit, and the written record is as deep as almost any contractor on Cape Ann — 22 Google reviews running from 2022 into 2026, plus deck testimonials on a local Gloucester community blog. The range of work is wide: porch and deck repairs, full exterior renovations with new siding and roofing, hardwood floors, a garage-mudroom-bonus-room addition, and a repair-and-update job on a centuries-old multi-unit building. The through-line across almost every account is Jack himself — reviewers keep describing him walking through a project's design and budget decisions personally, checking in on logistics like where to park equipment so it wouldn't block a driveway, and handling town permitting directly. One reviewer whose building underwent a historic renovation praised the plan's efficiency and safe use of lift equipment at height, and the crew's care working around individual unit owners' concerns. A homeowner whose 300-year-old house had a built-in removed said the crew found a missing section of wall mid-project, rebuilt it, and even cleaned stains out of a carpet they hadn't caused. Several reviewers describe using Lantern for repeat, ongoing projects. One March 2025 review breaks the pattern: a customer described a scope change made without consultation and about a third of a contracted job left unfinished, though the same review says Jack ultimately reimbursed them for the incomplete work. It's the one real complaint in an otherwise consistent record. Lantern also turned up organically on a Gloucester community blog in 2022, where a homeowner credited the company with getting a storm-damaged deck through inspections despite carpenter ants and weather delays. For a full exterior renovation, an addition, or a repair on an old Cape Ann building, Lantern Construction's record is deep and holds up well — the one blemish is worth asking about, but it's an outlier against two dozen otherwise consistent accounts.