Merrimac Home Contracting Co., Inc.

     P.O. Box 535

     East Syracuse, NY  13057

     (315) 703-4724   (315) 703-6298 fax

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Why the name “Merrimac”?

First;    The ending (“mac”) is from my family name –McAllister, and it was the nickname given to my father, Charles McAllister,  by his friends and business associates.

Plus;     I wanted a name that would signify strength. The Civil War ship Merrimack had it’s Hull “Iron-Cladded” so cannon balls would simply bounce off the hull, and not sink the ship.

Finally; I wanted a name that could be used easily in the jingle I had chosen, which was taken from the old Irish song  in the movie “Yankee Doodle Dandy” . It went: (H-A-DOUBLE-R-I-G-A-N SPELLS HARRIGAN). The Merrimac jingle matches that tune, with the letters changed to spell Merrimac.

The original tag-line under the Merrimac logo read: “Iron-Clad Solutions for the Home Exterior”. That got changed about 5 years later, after a few people told me they had taken that tag-line to mean we installed only metal siding products. So I changed the tag-line to: “A New Home at the Same Address”. This change was easy to come up since several of my customers (especially repeat customers) would say that it felt like they got a new home without having to move.

Tom McAllister

President

NOTE: As you browse thru our website, please enjoy the entire jingle (with one line on each page)