After more than a century in Boston and decades in Jamaica Plain, the nuns of the contemplative of the Franciscan Monastery of St. Clare at 920 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain wish to downsize. Initial plans to demolish the landmark building and construct new housing...
Over the next couple of months, contractor Olde Mohawk Preservation will install a new roof at the 1910 St. James African Orthodox Church in Roxbury. Beginning Monday, August 1st, they will begin removing multiple layers of old asphalt shingles from the church in order to...
Over the next two months, Chris Impellizeri of West Roxbury will be juggling three summer internship projects that will help HBI predict the future. Chris is researching models for shared use of former historic church buildings for HBI’s project at St. James African Orthodox Church; modeling...
Sang Won Han, who calls himself “James,” stopped by Historic Boston’s offices this week to pick up a key to the retail space in the historic Hayden Building at 681 Washington Street in Chinatown. On September 1st, he’ll open Wig World Boston there, a business...
A cornucopia of summer vegetables is growing right here in the city for your summer cooking. The Urban Farming Institute (UFI) will feature in-person and virtual public programs for food and fitness this summer, and weekly visitors to the historic Fowler Clark Epstein Farm at...
St. James African Orthodox Church in Roxbury hasn’t changed much since it was built in 1910. While it has been vacant for nearly 10 years, the stained glass windows still reflect the two congregations that worshiped there; the altar and pulpit remain, as does the...
Sammy Nabulsi, a partner at Rose Law Partners LLP, once worked in the City of Boston’s Law Department and represented the Boston Landmarks Commission and Boston’s other historic district commissions. “I think the city and the folks on those commissions do a really wonderful job of...
Designing commercial signage for the Comfort Kitchen café and restaurant at the historic Upham’s Corner Comfort Station has been challenging. While HBI encourages tenant signage that attracts customers, we also want to honor the character of the historic building. And in the case of the...
The war in Ukraine has called attention to the small but important concentration of Ukrainians-Americans in Boston. Their nearly 140-year arc of immigration has given the city several distinctive places and buildings emblematic of the Ukrainian experience. The stone chapel, mausoleums and gravestones of Ohabei Shalom...
Visitors to downtown Boston later this summer will discover scaffolding and construction workers at the corner of School and Washington Streets as Historic Boston begins a series of necessary repairs to the four historic buildings that comprise the Old Corner Bookstore complex. The majority of work...