Historic Boston, Inc is delighted to announce new members of our Board of Directors and Council of Advisors. In June, Cheis Garrus was elected to HBI's Board of Directors, and John Cannistraro Jr. joined the Council of Advisors. Cheis Garrus is currently the Director of Finance...
June was a busy month for MJ Mawn and his team at the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm.? Much of the work completed to date is structural, but more visible are the envelope repairs on the barn which are now complete (except for paint). Carpenters John Abdelnour...
Preservation Massachusetts (PMI) is traveling around the Commonwealth this summer to conduct a series of listening sessions with local and regional partners, preservation groups, and citizens that will shed light on community priorities for preservation in the state. As the only statewide preservation advocacy organization,...
Though most famous for his Midnight Ride, Paul Revere and his home play an important part in Boston's history and historic preservation efforts. The house was built in 1680 by wealthy North End merchant, Robert Howard, on a site occupied until the Great Fire of...
HBI?s Council of Advisors spring meeting took place in the tallest building in Downtown Boston yet focused on one of the neighborhoods smallest buildings ? the Old Corner Bookstore. HBI welcomed the group of 45 Advisors and special guests to the 58th floor of the Millennium...
Matthew Kiefer, Co-chair of HBI's Council of Advisors, marks the passing of architectural historian Abbott Lowell Cummings with memories of Cumming's many contributions to the field of historic preservation, and his devotion to teaching and learning. Abbott Lowell Cummings, the pre-eminent New England architectural historian and...
"A consideration of questions of community and conservation and how they relate to 88 Lambert Ave. in Roxbury, the house of early American architect Richard Bond and later of civil rights activist filmmaker Henry Hampton, which is being sold to a prospective developer. Curtis Maxwell...
On June 1, 2017 Dig Inn, a New York-based fast casual eatery opened its doors at 277 Washington St. It is the second of three Boston locations planned this year. The restaurant serves customizable bowls in which diners build a meal by choosing a base...
The Common Boston Festival, a program of the BSA Foundation, is an exciting and unique opportunity to explore the area's rich architectural, cultural, and historic sites. On Saturday and Sunday June 3 and 4, 2017, more than 50 sites throughout Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline...
Architectural historian, and co-founder of Archipedia New England, Brian Pfeiffer presents the first in a series of blog posts that highlight his research on the exterior treatment of early American masonry structures, and question the work of early preservationists whose restoration choices have shaped perhaps...