Demarest is one of Bergen County's smallest and quietest boroughs — about 5,000 people in a wooded, residential footprint with a distinctive lack of active passenger rail service. The old Northern Branch line that runs through the borough hasn't carried regular passenger trains in decades, and that absence of commuter-rail bustle has preserved a more historic and rural-feeling housing pattern than the train-line Pascack Valley boroughs to the west and south.
Same-day Demarest response from Garfield. Roofing work here trends toward preservation. The borough has a notable concentration of pre-1900 historic properties — the John Demarest House (1736, on the National Register of Historic Places) and the older Hardenburgh Avenue and Closter Dock Road streetscape remain intact — and the right roofing conversation on these properties is often restoration-grade with period-appropriate materials (slate, cedar shake, standing-seam metal on architectural barns and outbuildings). Newer borough housing (1920-1950 colonials, scattered post-war) takes architectural-shingle replacement with careful attention to the borough's preservation-minded character.
What We Work On in Demarest
Demarest's housing stock is unusually weighted toward pre-1900 historic properties for a Bergen borough — the John Demarest House (1736, NRHP-listed) is the landmark, and the older Hardenburgh Avenue and Closter Dock Road streetscapes carry similar 18th- and 19th-century character. The bulk of the borough is 1920-1950 colonials and Tudor revivals on quiet residential streets, with limited 1980s-onward newer construction. Roof pitches run 8/12 to 14/12 on the pre-1900 stock with slate, cedar, and standing-seam metal as the historically-correct materials; later stock uses architectural shingle.
Common Demarest Jobs
- Historic restoration on pre-1900 properties with period-appropriate materials
- Slate and cedar shake on NRHP-eligible and landmark-character homes
- Standing-seam metal on architectural barns and 19th-century outbuildings
- Architectural-shingle replacements on 1920-1950 colonials and Tudor revivals
- Coordinated work with borough preservation expectations on landmark properties
Demarest has a notable concentration of pre-1900 historic homes including the John Demarest House (1736, NRHP-listed). The borough has no active passenger rail service. Preservation expectations are real on landmark-character properties — we work within them.
Neighborhoods we serve in Demarest
ZIP codes: 07627