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Van Scott Builders, Inc. traces its heritage to 1948, when brothers Joseph and Charles Van Scott, both construction technology graduates of New York University at Delhi, established a custom carpentry business. During the post-World War II building boom, they offered their services as contract carpenters to the busy home builders in the Irondequoit New York area. In 1951, Joseph and Charles moved to Palmyra and formed Van Scott Brothers, Inc. to build custom homes. During the 1950s, the brothers were primarily spot builders. Toward the end of the decade, as the business matured, they took in a third partner, and began some land development and tract building. Although building in tracts, all of the Van Scott homes were pre-sold and custom-built by qualified staff employees, rather than using less expensive, less consistent subcontractors. The Van Scotts had adopted a policy of spending their "advertising dollars" to assure each customer was totally satisfied, and therefore assuring themselves of a steady supply of referrals and sales leads. Early in the 1970s, Joseph Van Scott purchased the total ownership of the company from his retiring partners, and expanded into the remodeling business to serve the changing needs of the owners of existing Van Scott-built homes. Word spread quickly through the company's market areas of Canandaigua, Sodus Point and the historic canal towns of Palmyra, Macedon and Fairport the Van Scotts were now in the remodeling business, as well as...

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