For the second consecutive year, HBI’s Old Corner building has been a featured canvas for the annual Illuminus light festival in downtown Boston. Last year, HBI unveiled an augmented reality project “Look Again” that used smart phones and tablets to overlay 150 years of photographic...
Historic Boston Inc. is pleased to announce the successful completion of its acquisition of the St. James African Orthodox church at 50 Cedar St in Roxbury. HBI closed on the $1.4 million acquisition of the property from Brookline-based City Realty Group today. HBI’s offer to purchase...
Click here for the Official Comfort Station Press Release. HBI is pleased to announce construction has at long last begun on the Upham’s Corner Comfort Station! Together with our community partner, The American City Coalition, Historic Boston was designated in 2015 by the City of Boston’s Department...
Over the course of its 300-year existence, the Old Corner Bookstore has been home to dozens of commercial storefronts including, an apothecary, the famed book publisher Ticknor and Fields, a cigar emporium, a lunch counter, tailor workshops, a pizza joint, real estate and lender's offices,...
Guest writer, Earl Taylor of the Dorchester Historical Society worked with the community to nominate the Calf Pasture Pumping Station as a Boston Landmark. Read his history of the building and hopes for the future of the space. On October 9, 2018 the Boston Landmarks Commission...
Historic Boston is pleased to unveil a tribute to the many very generous donors to the preservation of the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm in Mattapan. Taking inspiration from former owner Jorge Epstein’s stone walls, we commissioned a stone table, engraved with each of the project’s...
Historic Boston is pleased to announce our official ownership of the former public restroom: the Upham’s Corner Comfort Station. The City of Boston transferred the historic building to HBI in anticipation of construction starting later this month for the Sip and Spoke Bike Kitchen. [caption id="attachment_2991"...
HBI is grateful to the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation for a recent grant of $10,000 to support rehabilitation planning at historic Ionic Hall and St. Luke’s Chapel, two buildings that constitute the Episcopal Church of St. John St. James in Roxbury. Since 2017, HBI has been...
Historic Boston is very pleased to announce receipt of a $50,000 grant from The Kuehn Charitable Foundation that will help fund acquisition, and project pre-development expenses for the St. James African Orthodox Church at 50 Cedar Street in Roxbury. The Kuehn Charitable Foundation’s mission supports projects...
A special thanks to Jeff Gonyeau for writing this history of St. John and St. James for our blog. The group of buildings on the northern edge of Roxbury’s John Eliot Square now known as St. John’s / St. James Episcopal Church represents the complex history...