Martha's Vineyard Construction Company

Colin Whyte came to Martha's Vineyard in 1965 as a Brown undergraduate and started hauling trash off residential job sites. Martha's Vineyard Magazine marked the company's fiftieth anniversary in 2021; the firm he built now describes itself as an island luxury builder working from design concept to finish, and on retiring he passed leadership to his daughters, Hilary Moore and Alison Thompson. The work is high-end and mostly new custom homes — Houzz lists 17 project galleries and a typical job cost from $100,000 to $15 million. The reviews there are few and old, all four posted in 2017, and two of them come from trade partners rather than homeowners: a design professional who calls the work right the first time and every time, and a high-end cabinet firm praising the project managers and onsite supervisors. In a 2020 Google review a customer wrote simply that the company does fantastic work with great attention to detail. Project manager Drew Cathey is named warmly in two of the 2017 accounts. The thing to check before signing is the registration. The company's Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #167672, is on the state registry as EXPIRED — it ran to 16 November 2024 and has not been renewed on the record we can see. On the Vineyard much of this firm's work is new construction rather than home improvement, and the two are registered differently, but if your project is a renovation or an addition, ask directly for current HIC registration and insurance before work starts. So: a fifty-year island builder with a small, dated but uniformly strong written record, priced for large custom projects. Ask for recent references — the newest account here is from 2020 — and settle the registration question first.