William G Hohenstein

William G Hohenstein's permits read like a builder's rather than a handyman's. The biggest on file is a $500,000 owner-occupied single-family house at 63 Nahant Ave in Dorchester, permitted in June 2022 on a newly subdivided lot and certified for occupancy in May 2024. (That is Nahant Avenue in Dorchester, not the town of Nahant.) Around it sit a Newton Center house demolition, a Chestnut Hill second-floor addition, a Scituate garage roof and kitchen build, a Quincy job replacing a load-bearing wall, and two Milton additions. There is a commercial streak too — interior fit-outs on Newbury Street and Mt Vernon Street in Boston in 2014 and 2015. Ten permits in total, and BuildZoom's score of 94 places him in the top quarter of Massachusetts contractors. The licence picture is worth a direct question. BuildZoom says it verified Massachusetts construction supervisor licence CS-079098 active as of July 2026 — yet the same page lists that number again as an inactive construction supervisor licence the Department of Public Safety records as at one point cancelled, plus two Newton city registrations under 79098 whose last-verified expirations were August 2022. Those are the directory's records, not confirmations. No customer has written about the work, so there is no rating here. A plausible fit for structural jobs — an addition, a gut, a new build — provided you confirm the current construction supervisor licence with the Department of Public Safety and ask for references from recent work.