Historic Boston was honored to receive a grant of $50,000 from the 1772 Foundation this month to support planned repairs and preservation investments at the 1718 Old Corner Bookstore in downtown Boston. The funding will be devoted to upcoming roof repair and masonry repairs, to be...
Continuing from a February 26th post, here's more on 100 Shawmut's transformation from an industrial manufacturing site to contemporary condominiums. Sometimes research happens at its own pace. We wrote recently that, in the area in and around the recently developed InkBlock in Boston’s South End, only one...
Unlike the historic neighborhoods of Beacon Hill, the South End and Bay Village, the rich historic resources of Roxbury’s Highland Park are not protected for preservation. However, that could change as the neighborhood and the City of Boston’s Landmarks Commission conclude a 60-day public comment...
The Fowler Clark Epstein Farm in Mattapan was backdrop to Mayor Michelle Wu’s February 24th announcement of two new offices: “Grow Boston,” the City’s first-ever office devoted to urban agriculture development, and the “Mayor’s Office of Food Justice.” Mayor Wu’s initiative named planner and agriculture advocate...
This month Comfort Kitchen’s equipment supplier, TriMark, came out to the Upham’s Corner Comfort Station to take some measurements and review equipment details with architect Nate Fash of Supernormal, general contractor Mike Mawn of MJ Mawn, and Comfort Kitchen partners Biplaw Rai and Kwasi Kwaa. ...
Tom Palmer has recently researched the history of the historic building at 100 Shawmut Avenue and prepared this story for HBI's blog. The new buildings that comprise the South End’s InkBlock are attracting other new buildings to the neighborhood, transforming the former Boston Herald site along...
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...
Hello there, Jeff Boyer here – Guest blogger for Historic Boston this month and Chief Joy Instigator of Room Escapers Boston! We are a small and local Escape Room company that has two locations in downtown Boston – one of these being inside the beautiful...
Work is picking up at the 1912 Upham’s Corner Comfort Station as the crew from contractor MJ Mawn tears up the concrete floor of the building’s basement to accommodate new plumping that will support Comfort Kitchen’s new café and restaurant. Previous plans did not include...