On October 6, Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that HBI will receive a $150,000 grant from the Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund for the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm. A trust of the City of Boston, the Browne Fund allocates funds for the improvement of Boston's public...
For the last several months, several Roxbury organizations, under the leadership of Haley House, Madison Park CDC, and The American City Coalition, have been examining the Commonwealth's Cultural District program to determine its potential designation of such a space in this neighborhood. Next Tuesday, October...
Pure Joy Flowers, owned and operated by Marta and Wesley Thomas, opened this August at the Vertullo Building in Hyde Park. We are so excited to have them at Vertullo and to celebrate their opening we decided to ask them a few questions about Pure...
National Register Plaques were installed at HBI's Alvah Kittredge House in Highland Park and the Hayden Building in Chinatown this month. Both properties have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places for over thirty years but became official with the installation of the...
The New England Chapter of docomomo-US, in collaboration with Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. (PAL), presents a walking tour of Roxbury modern architecture on Saturday October 8th at 9:30 a.m. Please meet in front of the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building - the restored Ferdinand's Department...
In August HBI's Jeff Morgan spoke to students at Boston Architectural College. His lecture "Regenerating Neighborhoods with Cultural Heritage" was part of their fall 2016 lecture series....
Last week Jeff Brussel's blog post, "The Epstein Legacy at Fowler Clark Farm" captured the eccentricities of the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm and the preservation challenges they present. This week we decided to give you a glimpse into some of the farm's oddities and treasures...
Jeff Brussel is a Senior Project Architect at Perkins + Will and one of the team of architects at the firm working to transform the historic Fowler Clark Epstein Farm to a 21st century urban farm. The Fowler Clark Epstein Farm is a unique historical property...
HBI regretfully announces that Jeff Morgan has resigned his position as Director of Real Estate Development at HBI, effective this month. Jeff is pursuing an incredible opportunity to move abroad that blends new life adventures with his talents in real estate development. This is a great...
Stefani Warren of West Lake Village, California contacted HBI recently when she was disposing of antique items from her father's many years of collecting. She had a lap desk from the 1850s that had once belonged to a Samuel Wheeler of West Newton MA, and...