On January 24th, Boston City hall was officially designated a local Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission (BLC). Efforts to protect the building with a landmark designation were initiated in 2007. Nearly twenty years later, on the eve of Boston’s 250th anniversary of igniting the American...
Historic Boston’s Executive Director Kathy Kottaridis left the organization at the end of 2024 to become Mayor Wu’s Director of the Office of Historic Preservation in the City of Boston. After stewarding HBI staff and mission for over 17 years, we honored her leadership with...
Winteractive is back in Boston for its second year! Spearheaded by the Downtown Boston Alliance, in partnership with the Consulate General of Canada in Boston, the Quebec Government Office in Boston, MEET Boston, WNDR Boston, and the City of Boston, this annual art installation is...
In December Stacy Thompson joined Historic Boston as our Interim Executive Director. She’ll be with HBI for the next several months while we embark on hiring a permanent Executive Director. Stacy has been working with non-profits in Boston for more than 15 years. A relentless optimist,...
It was recently discovered that Louisa May Alcott may have written her own version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol under the pseudonym E.H. Gould. A post-doctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University, Max Chapnick, unearthed his discovery of the potential Alcott pseudonym E.H. Gould when...
People often think of Downtown Boston, the Common, and the Public Garden as great places to visit in the warmer months - but they are just as exciting in the winter. Start your winter stroll in Downtown Crossing where the Downtown Boston Alliance (DBA), formerly the Business...
While any news of MBTA improvements are gratefully welcomed by all Bostonians, it looks like the upcoming North Station Drawbridge repair project will demolish a 1931 signal tower from the historic Boston & Maine Railroad. [caption id="attachment_5760" align="aligncenter" width="682"] 1931 Boston & Maine Signal Tower A...
On November 12th, the Boston Landmarks Commission voted to designate the historic Calf Pasture Pumping Station in Dorchester's Colombia Point neighborhood a Boston Landmark! Now the measure needs to be voted on by the Mayor and City Council and if approved, the Calf Pasture Pumping...
Earlier this month, HBI staff went out to Roxbury for a site visit to Ionic Hall and to check on the status of the nearly finished and restored St. Luke’s Chapel. On the grounds of the St. John St. James campus that is also home...
Looking for a fright this spooky season? Look no further than the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, a favorite author of esteemed Old Corner Bookstore publisher’s Ticknor and Fields. Hawthorne sets his stories around Massachusetts and occasionally the far corners of New Hampshire (Check out “The...