Whitmore Brothers Const

Whitmore Brothers has been building in Marblehead a long time — the BBB file says the firm was established in 1979 and incorporated in 1983, with Jeff Whitmore as owner and three employees — and the permit trail matches that story: 24 permits at a typical value near $375,000, mostly Marblehead home additions and multi-room renovations, plus one job in Roslindale. That dollar figure is the tell. This is not a small-repair outfit; it works at the scale of additions, whole-home remodels and new custom homes, and describes itself as a full-service general contractor working alongside architects and designers. Its Houzz page shows three project albums — Rye Beach, Suburban Boston and Farm House — and BuildZoom lists memberships in the North East Builders Association of Massachusetts and the National Association of Homebuilders. BBB adds restoration and custom cabinetry to the list of work, and records the alternate names DRS Corporation and D.R.S. Corporation. What no one has done is write about them. Houzz shows zero reviews and still invites the first one, BuildZoom carries none, and the BBB file — open since October 1991 — publishes no reviews and no complaint count. That page does show an A+ rating alongside the separate fact that the company is not BBB accredited; the grade is the bureau's own assessment, not a homeowner's account of a finished job. The BuildZoom score of 99 is permit-derived ranking in the same way, not customer sentiment. On credentials, BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #113655, and a construction supervisor licence, CS-029689, both shown active and both under the company's own name; the BBB profile publishes that same 029689 number for itself. Neither has been confirmed against the state registry here. One practical thing: the company states its coverage only as regions — Metro Boston, Eastern Massachusetts, Southern New Hampshire — and names no towns, so confirm it actually takes work where you are. For an addition or a whole-house renovation on the North Shore this is a long-established, permit-active builder; with no client history published anywhere, ask for two or three recent Marblehead addresses you can call yourself.