Category Archives: Featured

A High Performance Riverside Home  

A High Performance Coastal Modern Farmhouse under construction in 2020 is featured

A Net Zero party barn we completed in 2019 is featured

Susan and Steve Howell’s own home is featured in this episode about Boxford, MA.

  We were so honored and humbled to be named Editors’ Choice for Custom Home Builder and Readers’ Choice for Renovations in the first annual Best of North Shore (BONS) Home Awards sponsored by Northshore Home Magazine. Thank you to everyone who voted for us as their favorite builder! For close to 20 years, our […]

What a great way to kickoff 2013 — we were twice surprised and honored to be notified by Trends Magazine that they had selected both a home and a bathroom we built as a “Top 50” award winner. Trends is an international print and online publication that focuses on the best in home design and […]

A Conversation With… Blaire Townsend Director of Project Management Blaire Townsend recently joined our team after 26 year’s experience on the commercial side of the construction industry. In this newly created position, Blaire manages our expanding project management group. Why did you decide to join HCBG and move from commercial to residential construction? I have […]

At a recent Northshore Magazine event, held on April 4th at Landry and Arcari in Salem, MA, several readers who were faced with challenging spaces in their homes, were the fortunate winners of free design solutions from North Shore home design experts. After many readers submitted photos of rooms that were not working for them, […]

This year we celebrate 15 years in business! We most gratefully acknowledge all those who have helped us to get here: Our Employees Our Customers Our Industry Colleagues We remain committed to Service, Innovation & Social Responsibility Learn more – view our Anniversary Video

“We’re building a world full of hope, building bridges among us all, using our hands to build a new life, brick by brick, wall by wall.” (from the lyrics of “Bricks & Stones”) In November, we had the great joy of celebrating the official dedication of the two homes we helped to build last June […]

Thank you to our customers and Boston Magazine readers who nominated us for Boston Magazine’s “Best Business” Award. In our Summer newsletter we asked you to nominate us in honor of our 15th company anniversary. This award program was designed to highlight innovative small businesses, leaders and organizations making an overwhelmingly positive impact on the […]

We Need Your Vote! In May, we celebrated our 15th company anniversary. When we founded Howell Custom Building Group in 1997, our vision was to utilize our professional backgrounds in engineering, project management, residential construction and marketing to create a consistently great new home construction and home remodeling experience for homeowners north of Boston. Since […]

Two Homes Built in 5 days for two hardworking, deserving families The week of June 4th was life-changing for us. That was the week of the nationwide Habitat for Humanity Builders Blitz , when 200 homes were built in just 5 days across the country. As part of this nationwide effort, we oversaw the construction […]

Howell Custom Building Group In the Community This coming June, Habitat for Humanity affiliates across the country will build 250 homes in the span of one week as part of Habitat’s 2012 Home Builder’s Blitz. The Merrimack Valley Habitat affiliate will build two houses on Market Street in Lawrence as part of this nationwide event.