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The legacy of Kidder Building & Wrecking Inc. in Plaistow, N.H., spans three generations in four states over the past 43 years. The company’s cranes and fleet of heavy equipment have worked and are working major projects in Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Roscoe Kidder founded his original company in Haverhill, Mass., in 1948 with immediate proximity to the tri-state region of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. He later passed the firm onto his son and namesake, Roscoe N. Kidder, who still works with his sons, Shawn N. Kidder and Dan Kidder, the future co-owners of the family business. Roscoe oversees all of the operations and projects that his two boys plan, control and execute. Originally a construction company three years after the end of World War II, Shawn Kidder said the dismantling of buildings began in order to gain materials at a cheaper cost, versus buying them new. Over the next 20 years, the “wrecking” business dominated while the construction end “slipped away,” according to Shawn Kidder. In 1971, Kidder Building & Wrecking Inc. was established.
Old School Muscle “The beginning only included two one-ton, six-wheeler dump trucks, the owner and his son — my father — and old school muscle,” said Kidder. “My grandfather ran the construction and dismantling full time and my father, Roscoe N. Kidder [the current president] would work days with the family business and nights at Western Electric. My grandfather, Roscoe Kidder Sr., passed away due to cancer, and Dad took full reigns of the company.” Having learned all aspects of building, the company evolved surely, based on years of individual job experience. “Their trade as a dismantler came natural due to being a carpenter and knowing the process of constructing a building,” said Kidder. “Dismantling was just reversing the process. Having the carpenter background gave them the upper hand against those who just tried to take a building down not knowing its internal structure.” Simple woodworking has evolved into a full-service company: • All demolition and dismantling services (interior gut outs and complete takedowns of residential, commercial, industrial and educational buildings) • Disposal of all debris/masonry/concrete to legal see KIDDEr page 4