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Partners in Preservation is a new blog series in which Historic Boston Inc. welcomes our 2025 Corporate Partners to share why Historic Preservation is important to them. Here, Scott Winkler, Principal of Wessling Architects, an architectural firm that specializes in exterior enclosure and historic preservation...

As window replacement and facade repairs continue on the Old Corner Bookstore Complex, we realized that the dormer windows on both the 1718 Old Corner Bookstore and 1728 Cunningham House were also in need of repair. Here, Historic Boston's Senior Project Manager Lisa Lewis shares...

If you work and or live in Downtown Boston, it’s likely that you’ve clocked a few new additions to our brick and concrete streetscape– and no– we’re not talking (yet again) about the fantastic informative scrim gracing the Old Corner Bookstore complex!  We’re talking about Winteractive,...

With the removal of some fencing and construction detail, our fellow commuters to downtown may have noticed the ongoing renovation of 26 Court Street is finally nearing completion! Historically called the Boston City Hall Annex, the gargantuan Neoclassical Revival building was constructed in 1912 and designed...

This giving season, our colleagues and collaborators at Feldman Geospatial gifted Historic Boston Inc. with the chance to share our story in a brand new way! We want to extend our sincere gratitude to Michael Feldman and Stephen Wilkes of Feldman Geospatial for making this happen,...

Here, HBI's Passion for Preservation series shares your preservation story with our readers. "Ayiti's First Soup Joumou" was submitted by Dumas Lafontant of Boston. This preservation pertains to improving historical legacy in fine arts. Basically, I commissioned a painting that depicts the founders of Ayiti (Haiti)...