Spring has sprung, and there is change in the air at HBI. As new projects like the church at 50 Cedar Street take shape, and we near completion of the Upham’s Corner Comfort Station, HBI welcomes new faces to its Board of Directors and Council...
In recognition of Women’s History Month, we spent some time reviewing primary source documents and secondary readings to learn more about literary icon, Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved West African child turned educated woman and author. Whether you have read her published poems or walked by...
Spring has arrived and with it has comes the unveiling of the Upham’s Corner Comfort Station (almost). The building that was once a convenience station (read: public restroom) is finally starting to shed its decrepit outer shell. Hidden for months under plywood, staging, and snow,...
Historic Boston Inc. (HBI) will host the first of several neighborhood meetings on Thursday, April 4th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. to plan for the preservation and re-use of the historic St. James African Orthodox Church at 50 Cedar Street in Roxbury. The meeting...
Historic Boston Incorporated (HBI) is very pleased to announce Hacin + Associates’ selection as the lead architect for its new project, the former St. James African Orthodox Church at 50 Cedar Street in Roxbury. The 50 Cedar Street project will involve the restoration and rehabilitation of...
HBI is pleased to welcome Kathleen Ustas to the organization as a research intern for the St. James Orthodox Church project. Kathleen brings a keen interest in real estate development, architecture, and Boston’s history to her internship. Currently, Kathleen attends Northeastern University and will graduate...
Kit Haggard is the Director of the Boston Literary District - a collection of 87 historically significant literary sites spread throughout Boston’s Downtown, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Theater, and South End neighborhoods. Kit earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence and her MFA from Emerson College....
The life and career of artist Allan Rohan Crite were so lengthy – he lived to be 97 and passed away in 2007 - that a study of his art reveals a diverse range of subject matter that changed significantly over time. Best known for...
The St. James African Orthodox Church has been an icon in the Highland Park neighborhood since its construction on the corner of Cedar Street and Hawthorne Street in 1910. Originally built for a Norwegian Evangelical congregation, the church changed hands to the African Orthodox Church...
We recently installed beautiful new front doors at the Eustis Street Fire House. The new doors replaced the ones that were installed when we rehabilitated the building in 2011, but after only seven short years, they had begun to pull away from the frame, which...