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Colantonio

General contractor headquartered in Holliston, Massachusetts

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ5141900
Source-derived summary

Colantonio is a general contractor headquartered in Holliston, Massachusetts. The firm offers preconstruction, general contracting, and construction management services with specialization in academic, affordable housing, municipal, and historical restoration markets.

Notable work

State House Senate Chamber renovations

Colantonio. partnered with the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, the Bureau of the State House and CBT Architects to restore the historic Senate Chamber of the Massachusetts State House in Boston. The project received the 2020 Associated General Contractors Build America Award; the 2019 Associated General Contractors of Massachusetts Build NE Performance Award; the 2019 Boston Society of Architects Accessible Design Award; and the 2019 Massachusetts Historical Commission Award for Rehabilitation & Restoration.

Fitchburg Yarn Works

Colantonio renovated the historic Fitchburg Yarn Mill in Fitchburg, Massachusetts into the 96-unit Yarn Works Apartments for WinnCompanies with designer The Architectural Team. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 6, 2016. The project received the 2018 Massachusetts Historical Commission Award for Rehabilitation and Restoration and the 2019 Preservation Massachusetts Mayor Thomas M. Menino Legacy Award.

Marathon Elementary School

Colantonio built the new Marathon Elementary School in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. The firm partnered with Compass Project Management and DRA Architects to build the 88,700 sq ft (8,240 m2) facility for the town's 475 pre-K, kindergarten, and first-grade students.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Colantonio” is general contractor headquartered in Holliston, Massachusetts. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Colantonio, General and contractor, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2019, 2016, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978. For this dossier, Colantonio, General and contractor is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5141900. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 2019, 2016 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Colantonio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.