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...
Near Dorchester Bay, on the campus of UMass Boston, the 1883 Calf Pasture Pumping Station sits unused and neglected. However, the prospects for the historic building – one of the country’s first organized sewage management systems – is looking up. UMass Building Authority is preparing...
When Historic Boston (HBI) moved its headquarters back to our original office space at the Old Corner Bookstore a little over a year ago, we took advantage of the opportunity to reacquaint ourselves with the site, which had been HBI’s headquarters from its founding in...
The restaurant fit out for the new restaurant Comfort Kitchen is about to begin at the historic Upham’s Corner Comfort Station, and if reviews of the restaurant’s current pop-up at Jamaica Plain’s Little Dipper are a hint of what’s to come, Dorchester’s in for a...
The Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry (UUUM) is offering a series of webinars about its historic Meetinghouse – the 1804 First Church Roxbury. The series, Treasures of the Meetinghouse, offered in collaboration with Roxbury Historical Society, will explore the site’s archaeology, the church building's historic Hook...
Historic Boston was pleased to learn that developer Travis Lee plans to purchase and redevelop the O’Hearn Storage Building and the 18th century Isaac Newcomb Field house in Fields Corner for affordable housing. The site’s buildings – the O’Hearn Storage Building, the Dorchester Music Hall and...
Earlier this year, with assistance from the East Boston Community Development Corporation (EBCDC), the East Boston Museum and Historical Society entered into a purchase and sale agreement with the owner of the historic Donald McKay House at 80 White Street in East Boston. The Museum is...