# Meriden Commercial Painting | Gagnon Painting

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Last updated: 2026-09-09T21:39:25.480Z

> Commercial painting in Meriden, CT — downtown storefronts, offices, restaurants and medical facilities. PDCA member, insured. Call 860-793-2200.

## Commercial Painting in Meriden, CT

Gagnon Painting & Decorating has worked on Connecticut commercial property since 1977. Meriden is the Silver City — named for the silver manufacturers who built it, and once home to International Silver — and its downtown still carries the commercial architecture that industry paid for.

We are fully licensed and insured, a PDCA member and BBB accredited. CT Registration H.I.C. #0564200.

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## What is downtown Meriden actually made of?

A remarkably mixed fabric, and it changes what a repaint involves from one building to the next. The Colony Street and West Main Street Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1987, covers 11.5 acres in the heart of downtown — 38 buildings, 31 of them contributing, built between roughly 1850 and 1940.

The nomination catalogues Gothic Revival and Italianate; Neo-Grec, Romanesque Revival, Renaissance Revival and Victorian vernacular; Neo-Classical Revival, Georgian Revival and Tudor Revival; and three Art Deco and Art Moderne buildings on Colony Street from the 1920s boom. It also records terra-cotta friezes and cornices, skilled bricklaying and important roof lines — and notes that most of these buildings have been altered with newer storefronts.

That last point is the practical one. A downtown Meriden commercial elevation is frequently two buildings in one: an original masonry upper facade with terra-cotta detail, and a much later storefront at street level. They are different substrates, in different condition, wanting different preparation and often different coatings. Quoting them as a single wall area is how a job goes wrong.

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## Commercial property in Meriden?

Call for a free estimate and a written summary quote on your first visit.