For a steamy night in late July, you might not expect a crowd to troop out in the heat for a meeting after work. The heat didn’t stop a group of 50 or so Highland Park residents from gathering in Putnam Chapel at the First...
Historic Boston has begun the process of purchasing the building and land at 50 Cedar St, ending a nail-biting period of suspected demolition. The building at 50 Cedar Street has been a highlight of the Highland Park neighborhood in Roxbury since its construction in 1910. Though...
My name is Kemi Akande, and I am the summer intern at HBI. I am a rising senior at Wellesley College, where I am pursuing a degree in Economics and Africana Studies. Through the Commercial Real Estate Success Training (CREST) Program, which offers women and...
In May we shared the news that HBI had been enlisted by the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and the Parish of St. John St. James in Roxbury to prepare a feasibility study to preserve and rehabilitate the two historic buildings that make up the Episcopal...
Sixteen historic preservation projects received 41% of the total funds distributed in the first competitive round for CPA funding in Boston recently. HBI is pleased to report that its project at the 1912 Upham’s Corner Comfort Station in Dorchester received a $365,000 grant in this...
Historic Boston has been studying the Boston neighborhood of Allston and its historic buildings in order to better understand the neighborhood’s history, buildings and character as it faces dramatic new development. HBI’s Shaurya Batra takes a look at the neighborhood’s evolution over four centuries and the...
Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Historic Boston Inc. and its three partners, Urban Farming Institute, Trust for Public Land and North Bennet Street School, celebrated the opening of a 21stcentury urban farm, residence, and teaching center at the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm on June 25thwith...
Historic Boston is very pleased to announce the receipt of two major contributions this week that allow us to proceed with the rehabilitation of the 1912 Upham’s Corner Comfort Station on Columbia Road in Dorchester. Barbara and Amos Hostetter confirmed a very generous contribution of...
Historic Boston Inc. (HBI) is very pleased to announce a generous grant of $250,000 from the Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable Trust to support current and future HBI projects. Specifically, the funds will be added to HBI’s project investment fund for emergency acquisitions, project equity or patent...
If you were anywhere near Boston Harbor on Friday, June 8th, you may have seen the USS Constitution, “Old Ironsides” moving placidly through the inner harbor on one of several “turnarounds” of the 1790s ship, or you may have heard her 21-gun salute at Fort...