Author: Historic Boston Inc
15 Feb Stained, Sealed, and Delivered: Eustis Fire House gets new front doors
We recently installed beautiful new front doors at the Eustis Street Fire House. The new doors replaced the ones that were installed when we rehabilitated the building in 2011, but after only seven short years, they had begun to pull away from the frame, which...
14 Feb STEAM Students at the Old Corner Bookstore
Guest blogger, Barbara Mikolajczak leads the Immersive Education club at Saint John School in the North End using Minecraft to teach history, architecture and Math. The STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) students in her class have used Minecraft to recreate sites along The Freedom Trail using specifications...
08 Feb On the surface, on the up and up, and on the waterfront
In January, the Boston Society of Architects opened an exhibition of stunning photographs by HBI Council of Advisor member, Peter Vanderwarker. The show, entitled “Surface Tension: Architectural Photographs From Peter Vanderwarker”, features photographs that, according to Vandewarker capture “the nature of surfaces, in both the built...