In December Stacy Thompson joined Historic Boston as our Interim Executive Director. She’ll be with HBI for the next several months while we embark on hiring a permanent Executive Director. Stacy has been working with non-profits in Boston for more than 15 years. A relentless optimist,...
It was recently discovered that Louisa May Alcott may have written her own version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol under the pseudonym E.H. Gould. A post-doctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University, Max Chapnick, unearthed his discovery of the potential Alcott pseudonym E.H. Gould when...
People often think of Downtown Boston, the Common, and the Public Garden as great places to visit in the warmer months - but they are just as exciting in the winter. Start your winter stroll in Downtown Crossing where the Downtown Boston Alliance (DBA), formerly the Business...
While any news of MBTA improvements are gratefully welcomed by all Bostonians, it looks like the upcoming North Station Drawbridge repair project will demolish a 1931 signal tower from the historic Boston & Maine Railroad. [caption id="attachment_5760" align="aligncenter" width="682"] 1931 Boston & Maine Signal Tower A...
On November 12th, the Boston Landmarks Commission voted to designate the historic Calf Pasture Pumping Station in Dorchester's Colombia Point neighborhood a Boston Landmark! Now the measure needs to be voted on by the Mayor and City Council and if approved, the Calf Pasture Pumping...
Earlier this month, HBI staff went out to Roxbury for a site visit to Ionic Hall and to check on the status of the nearly finished and restored St. Luke’s Chapel. On the grounds of the St. John St. James campus that is also home...
Looking for a fright this spooky season? Look no further than the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, a favorite author of esteemed Old Corner Bookstore publisher’s Ticknor and Fields. Hawthorne sets his stories around Massachusetts and occasionally the far corners of New Hampshire (Check out “The...
HBI staff went for a walk through the neighboring historic Chinatown to experience the new Immigrant History Trail for ourselves! Implemented and installed by the Chinatown Community Land Trust, the Immigrant History Trail elevates the unique stories of the neighborhood’s working-class, immigrant population during a...
When Harvey Parker opened the School Street hotel in 1855, a gathering of literary luminaries — including esteemed authors published by Ticknor and Fields out of the Old Corner Bookstore: Longfellow, Emerson, and Hawthorne — began holding festive monthly meetings there known as the Saturday...
HBI made it out to Worcester for Preservation Massachusetts’s annual Historic Preservation Conference on September 27th. While it has been several years since Preservation Massachusetts held an in-person conference due to the fallout from Covid, it had been nearly ten years since the organization had...