MARC TRUANT & ASSOCIATES

Marc Truant & Associates has spent more than three decades restoring some of Boston's most historically significant buildings — the kind of firm called in when a project needs to preserve a piece of the past rather than just build something new. The company, run by Marc Truant out of Cambridge and in business since 1992 according to its BBB listing, keeps showing up in the press for exactly that kind of work. In 2010, High-Profile Monthly reported its exterior restoration and stabilization of 5/6 Lathrop Place, the first phase of the Paul Revere Memorial Association's effort to build an education and visitor center next to the Paul Revere House. In 2012, the Boston Globe covered its restoration of the Hayden Building in Boston's old Combat Zone, a Richardson-designed structure being modernized while its historic brick and 1875 scaffolding footholds were preserved. Its name also appears, credited as general contractor, on a National Register-listed historic home renovation in Wellesley, as documented on the project architect's site. The company's range goes beyond preservation work: a custom home it developed in Newton earned the town's first LEED certificate in 2007, and in 2001 a Boston building it constructed for the Swiss House for Advanced Research and Education won a Swiss press honor for its materials and technology. In 2011, the Portland Press Herald named it as the construction manager for an artist's studio project in Maine. What's worth confirming before hiring: BuildZoom's records list an active Massachusetts Architect license (#6665) for the company, though its last verification showed an August 2025 expiration, and the same source shows a separate Home Improvement Contractor registration under the company that's listed inactive, noted as at one point cancelled according to Mass.gov — worth asking about directly given the contracting scope of a project. Neither BBB nor BuildZoom shows any customer reviews, so there's no written homeowner feedback to weigh alongside the press coverage. For a historic renovation or a project where preservation and design matter as much as construction, this is a firm with a documented record of exactly that kind of work — confirm current licensing and ask for references, since the public record here comes mostly from journalism rather than client reviews.