In 1634, Anne Hutchinson followed her spiritual leader, the Reverend John Cotton, to Boston, Massachusetts to live among their fellow Puritans and religious dissidents of the Church of England. Hutchinson and her family settled and built a home on the site of what is today...
Our office artifact of the month is a 1989 clipping from the Beacon Hill News, spotlighting HBI's work on the 1872 Zakrzewska Medical Building in Roxbury! The building is now at the heart of the Dimock Community Health Center, but was once the New England Hospital...
In a promising development for the Port Norfolk neighborhood of Dorchester, Historic Boston Inc. (HBI) and the non-profit organization Speak for the Trees are exploring the potential reuse of the long-vacant A.T. Stearns Counting House. This historic building, constructed in 1855, could soon serve as...
This month, we give you a 2020 architectural drawing of a past HBI project, the St. James African Orthodox Church in Roxbury! This drawing was included in a 2020 permit set compiled by architectural firms Hacin and Wessling Arhcitects. When HBI sold the church to the Roxbury...
Partners in Preservation is a new blog series in which Historic Boston Inc. welcomes our 2025 Corporate Partners to share why Historic Preservation is important to them. Here, Scott Winkler, Principal of Wessling Architects, an architectural firm that specializes in exterior enclosure and historic preservation...
To celebrate the start of America250, this month our office artifact is a historically authentic reproduction of the John Gill print of the Declaration of Independence from our friends at the Printing Office of Edes & Gill! Edes & Gill, a longtime historic printing press nonprofit...
As window replacement and facade repairs continue on the Old Corner Bookstore Complex, we realized that the dormer windows on both the 1718 Old Corner Bookstore and 1728 Cunningham House were also in need of repair. Here, Historic Boston's Senior Project Manager Lisa Lewis shares...
If you work and or live in Downtown Boston, it’s likely that you’ve clocked a few new additions to our brick and concrete streetscape– and no– we’re not talking (yet again) about the fantastic informative scrim gracing the Old Corner Bookstore complex! We’re talking about Winteractive,...
With the removal of some fencing and construction detail, our fellow commuters to downtown may have noticed the ongoing renovation of 26 Court Street is finally nearing completion! Historically called the Boston City Hall Annex, the gargantuan Neoclassical Revival building was constructed in 1912 and designed...
This month, we think it's timely to spotlight the beautiful holiday card our longtime friend and frequent collaborator, Joanne Kaliontzis, designed for us in 2024! Joanne utilized an 1857 illustration of a William J. Pierce engraving of the Old Corner Bookstore that was illustrated by A. Hill for...