Mayor Michelle Wu’s 2023 operating budget moved The Boston Landmarks Commission out from under management by the City’s Environment Department and into a newly created Office of Historic Preservation. The re-structuring keeps the City’s chief historic preservation regulatory functions within the Environment, Energy and Open Space...
HBI's summer intern Chris Impellizeri's major summer project has been helping HBI understand energy usage of the Old Corner Bookstore complex in order to inform ways we might reduce the property's carbon footprint and improve its energy performance over time. Simple as it may sound,...
There's been a lot of noise coming from construction at the historic St. James African Orthodox Church in Roxbury this month. The most obvious cause is Olde Mohawk Preservation's replacement of the entire roof of the church building. More quietly has been the work of...
Historic Boston was saddened to learn of the recent passing of Marcia Myers, 81, a pioneering preservation planner in Boston and a long-serving member of HBI’s Board of Directors. Marcia was the first director of the Boston Landmarks Commission and, as staff to the Boston...
Christopher Impellizeri hails from West Roxbury and is a rising junior at DePaul University in Chicago, studying urban planning and development. As HBI's summer 2022 intern, Chris has been working on several projects, among them research on non-profit organizations near and far that, like Historic...
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...