While our city hums with exciting new development, Historic Boston Inc. (HBI) continues its 57-year mission of renewing historic places that make Boston and its neighborhoods unique. Our projects are a great source of pride to their neighborhoods and prove the value of our shared...
Historic Boston Inc.’s (HBI) Augmented Reality installation at the Old Corner Bookstore, Look Again, is now available for download for iOS and Android devices. Originally launched during Boston’s 2017 Illuminus Art Festival in November, the project presents five historic views of the Old Corner Bookstore overlaid onto the contemporary...
Preservation developers, including Historic Boston Inc. (HBI), are heartened that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 recently signed into law by President Trump preserves the federal 20% Historic Tax Credit (HTC) with a new provision that it will be claimed over five years. While...
The Fowler Clark Epstein Farm has been a beehive of activity this month, with construction on-going both inside and out, as we head toward completion of the project. While David Hurst’s landscaping team has been hurrying to regrade the site and complete walls and pathways...
2017 marks the 150th anniversary of Charles Dicken’s first American reading of A Christmas Carol, an event that took place at Tremont Temple in Boston....
Literary historian Rob Velella recently spoke 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....
HBI is pleased to announce that Michael Feldman and Derek Lumpkins were recently elected to HBI’s Board of Directors at the organization’s December board meeting....
HBI’s project at the Upham’s Corner Comfort Station and Dorchester Bay EDC’s Pierce Building were featured in the Boston Globe recently as part of Vote Your Main Streets this fall, a national campaign in support preservation projects around the country. Check out the Boston Globe article...
Historic Boston’s new augmented reality installation at the Old Corner Bookstore – Look Again – was selected to be part of this year’s Illuminus Art Festival in downtown Boston on November 3rd and 4th. A partnership between the non-profit Illuminus and the Downtown Boston BID,...
Literary historian Rob Velella recently spoke 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. Rob graciously permitted HBI to re-print...