Historian Karilyn Crockett’s recent book People Before Highways is one of the first studies of the neighborhood leaders who, in the 1960s and 70s, built an extraordinary coalition of grassroots support that stopped the ill-conceivedI-695, also known as the Inner Belt. The proposed eight-lane superhighway would have...
Historic Boston Inc. has been invited by the Boston Landmarks Commission to participate in Preservation Month by holding an event on Wednesday, May 30th from 4pm – 5pm at the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm. The 18th century farmstead became a City of Boston landmark in...
Historic Boston Inc. congratulates Christopher Scoville as he becomes Chair of the Board of the Boston Preservation Alliance at the organization’s annual meeting on April 9th. Professionally, Chris also works closely with HBI on project financing and is a trusted advisor to the organization. As Senior Vice President...
Winter is finally over! The snow has disappeared and been replaced with plenty of mud at the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm. The return of spring has brought the return of David Hurst and his landscaping crew to complete the transformation of the formerly overgrown yard...
PLAN: Dudley Square, a BPDA initiative to strategize about the uses and scale of development for DND and BPDA owned and/ or managed parcels in Roxbury and Dudley Square, is close to meeting its objective of issuing Request for Proposals (RFP) for eight parcels in...
One of the most intriguing elements of the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm are the two murals painted in one of the first floor rooms of the historic farmhouse. The murals were unsigned, but we learned from Walter Santory, a former employee of Jorge Epstein, that...
Latinos in Heritage Conservation, Rhode Island Latino Arts, and the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission (RIHPHC) present Encuentro 2018, the 3rd National Convening of Latinos in Heritage Conservation in Providence, Rhode Island from April 26th to the 28th. The program, which also includes the...
Grant supports restoration of the Upham’s Corner Comfort Station Historic Boston Inc. is pleased to announce the receipt of a $100,000 grant from The 1772 Foundation of Newport, Rhode Island for capital costs associated with rehabilitation of the 1912 Upham’s Corner Comfort Station. The 1772 Foundation is...
Roslindale Village Main Street recently unveiled Roslindale’s Engineering Marvel, a history exhibit that traces the construction, operation, decline and renewal of the 1911 Roslindale Substation, on the lower floor of the renewed substation at 4228 Washington St. It is available for public viewing during business...
Literary historian Rob Velella presents the fourth of four installment of a presentation made in the fall of 2017 at the Old South Meetinghouse on the extraordinary history of Ticknor and Fields whose 19th century publishing hegemony made the Old Corner Bookstore one of the most importance places in American literary history....