Expert exterior services for Somers homeowners. A northern Westchester town of 33 square miles — birthplace of the American circus, home to a National Historic Landmark at its center, nearly entirely within the Croton Watershed — where lake community bungalows, large-lot colonials, and rural farmhouses define an unusually varied residential landscape.
Somers is a 33-square-mile town in northern Westchester County with a history as distinctive as any in the region. In 1805, a local farmer and cattle merchant named Hachaliah Bailey acquired an Indian elephant he called Old Bet — one of the first elephants to arrive in North America — and began exhibiting her throughout the northeast. His success drew in other local families, who began importing and touring exotic animals until their enterprises merged with traveling acrobatic acts to form the basis of the modern American circus. The Elephant Hotel, built by Bailey in the 1820s and now Somers Town Hall, is a National Historic Landmark and the anchor of the Somers Hamlet Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. The town's high school teams are still called the Tuskers. Nearly 100 percent of Somers' 33 square miles lies within the Croton Watershed of the New York City Reservoir System — a fact that shapes the town's rural character directly, as watershed protection requirements have limited high-density development and preserved the spring-fed lakes, streams, and open land that define Somers' landscape.
Meridian Contracting has served Somers and the surrounding northern Westchester communities for more than 25 years. We're a family-owned business based in Yonkers. Somers' housing stock is among the most varied in the project: former seasonal lake community bungalows and cottages in hamlets like Shenorock, Lincolndale, and Lake Purdys — many winterized for year-round use in the postwar decades — alongside postwar colonials, ranches, and split-levels, larger-lot newer construction on the two- and three-acre residential parcels that zoning protects, Heritage Hills' 2,600-unit condo community, and occasional working farmhouses and historic structures in the more rural sections of the town.
Leak repair, flashing, storm damage, inspections, and maintenance plans for Somers' lake community bungalows, postwar colonials, and large-lot rural homes.
Full replacements and new installations across Somers' varied housing stock — from converted lake bungalows and postwar ranches to newer large-lot colonials.
Cleaning, installation, replacement, and guards for Somers' wooded lots and lake-adjacent properties where canopy debris and moisture are elevated.
Vinyl, fiber cement, and wood siding for the full range of Somers housing — from lake community bungalows and postwar ranches to newer craftsman-style homes on large lots.
Somers’ position almost entirely within the Croton Watershed creates a moisture environment that is different from more open, developed communities. Spring-fed lakes and streams throughout the town, dense deciduous forest cover on most residential lots, and the preserved open land of the Angle Fly Preserve, Muscoot Farm, and surrounding watershed parcels keep ambient humidity and canopy debris loads higher than in more developed suburban communities. Properties in the lake communities of Shenorock, Lincolndale, and Lake Purdys deal with direct lake-adjacent moisture that accelerates wood deterioration, promotes faster moss and algae growth on shaded roof surfaces, and keeps ambient humidity elevated year-round.
Somers’ housing range also creates different maintenance scenarios across the town. Former seasonal lake bungalows and cottages winterized for year-round use often have simplified original construction with limited insulation, original single-pane windows, and roofing systems not designed for year-round northern Westchester winters. Postwar ranches and colonials from the 1950s through 1970s are at typical replacement cycle age on roofing, siding, and chimney systems. Newer large-lot homes on two- and three-acre parcels have more contemporary systems but more complex rooflines and more canopy exposure from larger, more wooded lots.
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We provide full roof installation, replacement, repair, and maintenance across asphalt, metal, and architectural shingle materials, plus siding installation and repair, gutter and downspout services, soffit and fascia work, and chimney installation, repointing, cap, and crown repair.
Yes, we serve every part of the Town of Somers including its lake communities and rural hamlets.
Yes — lake-adjacent properties in Shenorock, Lincolndale, and Lake Purdys deal with elevated ambient humidity that accelerates wood deterioration, promotes faster moss growth on shaded surfaces, and keeps moisture conditions elevated year-round.
Yes. Meridian Contracting is fully licensed and insured throughout Somers and Westchester County.
Yes, we serve Heritage Hills and other condo and townhome communities throughout Somers.
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