Thomas R Dowd

Thomas R Dowd Construction works out of 71 Cabot St in Beverly, and the clearest picture of it comes from town permit records rather than from customers: 24 permitted jobs logged on BuildZoom, filed there under Beverly general contractors. Read that list and a general contractor emerges, not a specialist. New single-family homes. Demolition and pool removals. Deleading. Retaining walls, replacement windows, roofing. The entry closest to home for Nahant readers is recent — a driveway excavated and repaved at 357 Nahant Rd in July 2025. What nobody has written is a review. BuildZoom carries none at all, so there is no customer account of how a Dowd job actually runs. On paper the credentials look full. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #152663, plus two construction supervisor licences, #CS-064793 and #CS-102859, and says it found each of them active during 2026. Those are BuildZoom's own records, not a check against the state registry. Worth a call if your project is the bigger kind — an addition, a teardown, a whole-house job — where that permit range is the relevant experience. Ask for references from the past year or two, and confirm the registration number directly with the state before you sign anything.