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HBI wished Greg Galer, the Boston Preservation Alliance’s Executive Director, farewell last month as he left that role to assume leadership of the Association for Preservation Technology International. “I’m proud of my work at the Boston Preservation Alliance,” said Greg,  “We’ve touched every neighborhood, influenced hundreds...

Hyde Park’s Vertullo Building, one of the neighborhood’s earliest commercial building’s, will be preserved and protected in perpetuity after Historic Boston received State and local permissions recently to place a preservation restriction on the building before selling it to Nikia Londy and Barron Langston, business...

Historic Boston acknowledges the great generosity of its many 2021 donors, whose support fueled a healthy start to 2022 and will help HBI to carry out important preservation projects throughout the year. It’s never too late or too early to give to HBI.  Visit our secure...

Although only in office for a few months, Mayor Kim Janey’s administration made a significant mark advancing the designation of historic places as Boston Landmarks. The designation of Boston Landmark is the most effective way to protect an historic building or landscape or an historic...

Your generosity made 2021 a successful year for Historic Boston's work across Boston.  Even as we navigated the pandemic’s delays and uncertainties, this was a year of achievements: The final phase of construction is underway at the 1912 Upham’s Corner Comfort Station in Dorchester for...

Historic Boston is pleased to report the final phase of construction on the historic Upham’s Corner Comfort Station begins in December.  In summer of 2022 it will open as Comfort Kitchen, a full-service café with pop-up dinner operations under the management of local food entrepreneurs Biplaw...

Historic Boston Inc. joins with Boston’s preservation community to welcome newly inaugurated Mayor Michelle Wu.  As candidate for mayor, Wu suggested her administration will advance resources, regulation and policy measures that support preservation and community planning for historic neighborhoods. In a lengthy interview with the Boston...