Philip A Picariello

Fifty-one permits, and almost every one of them is in Marblehead. This is a builder who works one town — and works the expensive end of it: a $380,000 rear addition on Page Road, a $250,000 job replacing a single-storey garage with a two-storey structure on Pickwick Road, a $244,500 interior renovation on Mariners Lane, a $180,000 garage rebuild on Ocean Avenue. Typical permit value sits around $65,000. The pattern inside those permits says a lot. Job after job is filed "per drawings by" a named architect or designer — Veronica Hobson, Tucker Architectural, Molly Frey Design, SV Design, MMO Designs, Taproot Design, Bruce Greenwald. That is architect-led renovation work, not a handyman operation: back-to-back en-suite bathrooms carved out of a second floor, curtain walls removed to open a floorplan, a dormer built for a laundry, fire-damage structural repairs across three floors on Ocean Avenue, and window-trim-and-siding replacement on Franklin Street under an Old and Historic Districts Commission certificate of appropriateness. Now the part that has to be said plainly. BuildZoom flags this profile with a red alert and a score of zero because no active licence is on file, and its licence records show why: two separate Massachusetts home improvement contractor registrations, #117616 and #142948, both inactive and described as having been cancelled, and a construction supervisor licence, CS-012518, likewise inactive and cancelled. All three are printed under the name Philip A Picariello. A cancelled construction supervisor licence matters for exactly the structural work these permits describe. There is a plausible explanation sitting on the same page, and it is worth asking about rather than assuming. The listing's own people block names J.N. Picariello Co., LLC as owner and John N Picariello as responsible person, alongside Philip A Picariello — so the entity actually pulling these permits may be the company, with the current licence held there rather than under the personal name. No one has written a review of this business anywhere. So if you are considering them for an architect-drawn Marblehead renovation, the permit history is genuinely strong evidence of that exact work — and the single most important question before signing is which entity and which licence number will appear on your contract. Ask for the number, then check it yourself with the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation and the Department of Public Safety.