Christopher Scoville is the Senior Vice President of Community Development Lending at Eastern Bank. Through Chris’ work, community-based organizations that provide services like senior care, housing development/construction, and education have access to banking services and financing for delivery of their non profit missions. Since 2011,...
We caught up with Biplaw Rai and Nyacko Pearl Perry of the Comfort Kitchen team to talk about the Upham's Corner Comfort Station project. Read the interview below for their take on the biggest challenges before them, and their growing excitement as they see their vision...
Jamaica Plain's Sumner Hill is a National Historic District and is an architectural treasure trove of wood frame homes. Perched on the highest point of JP's hilltop, the densely settled area is comprised of homes that were built in the latter half of the 19th...
Read as a .pdf: HBI COVID-19 Response and Update Dear Friends, The Covid-19 pandemic will have long-term effects and change our lives, but Boston has an enduring history of resiliency through crises and pandemics over centuries. Our city’s age-old ability to find strength in our community, to...
East Boston’s Eagle Hill Historic District is a residential district chock full of single-family and multiple-family wood frame housing that showcase a wide variety of architectural styles including Italianate, Second Empire or Renaissance Revival in style, with earlier Greek Revival and later Colonial Revival and...
Historic Boston is pleased to announce that the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm in Mattapan has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places - the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation for their historic significance. The program’s goal is to...
Historic Boston Inc. is excited to announce that Mr. Sammy Nabulsi, Associate at Rose Law Partners, has been named a new member of the HBI Board of Directors. Sammy Nabulsi joined Rose Law Partners in 2018. Prior to joining the firm, Sammy was Assistant Corporation Counsel...
HBI recently submitted a proposal to redevelop the historic Dudley house at 167 Centre Street in Roxbury. Built circa 1825 for David and Hannah Dudley and their family, the house remained in the Dudley family until 1896, though much of the large estate had been...
Call us biased, but May is one of our favorite months of the year! Each year, Preservation Month comes around and brings a slew of new tours, resources, seminars, and new ways to celebrate our favorite parts of our cities, towns, and everything in between....
Ticknor and Fields' shop at the corner of School Street and Washington Street published iconic literary works like Henry David Thoreau's Walden Life in the Woods and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Over the course of 75 years, the corner store was home to ten...