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HBI is pleased to share an album of photos from the Fowler Clark Farm taken by Peter Vanderwarker, a member of HBI’s Council of Advisors. From the ground and from the sky, Vanderwarker’s shots show every angle of the recently completed farm at 487 Norfolk...

Historic Boston is pleased to unveil a tribute to the many very generous donors to the preservation of the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm in Mattapan.  Taking inspiration from former owner Jorge Epstein’s stone walls, we commissioned a stone table, engraved with each of the project’s...

Jeff Brussel is a Senior Project Architect at Perkins + Will and one of the team of architects at the firm working to transform the historic Fowler Clark Epstein Farm to a 21st century urban farm. The Fowler Clark Epstein Farm is a unique historical...

Last week Historic Boston Inc., along with The Urban Farming Institute(UFI) and The Trust for Public Land (TPL) invited friends and neighbors of the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm to a community cookout and conversation in Mattapan. It was a gorgeous summer evening and an atmosphere...

In June guest blogger/architect/Boston resident Susan Pranger wrote about the potential future impacts of climate change on historicbuildings.  In part two of her blog, Sue discusses possible climate-related damage to wood at the 1786 Fowler Clark Farm in Mattapan, which was recently acquired by HBI. ...

Back in December, guest blogger Dr. John Steinberg of the Fiske Center for Archeological Research at UMass Boston wrote about his survey work at the Fowler Clark Farm in Mattapan which HBI recently acquired.  Using ground penetrating radar (GPR), the UMass team surveyed all of...

This mural in the living room of the Fowler Clark Farm depicts an artists interpretation of the farm in earlier days  Those who regularly read HBI?s blog have probably seen historic photos of all of our projects. Finding historic images can be a bit of...

 HBI is grateful to Feldman Land Surveyors for providing pro-bono laser scans of the 1785 Fowler Clark Farm in Mattapan.  Stephen Wilkes of Feldman wrote this article to share how it?s done and why it?s so valuable to the preservation of historic buildings. Constructed towards...