Earlier this month, HBI staff went out to Roxbury for a site visit to Ionic Hall and to check on the status of the nearly finished and restored St. Luke’s Chapel. On the grounds of the St. John St. James campus that is also home...
Looking for a fright this spooky season? Look no further than the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, a favorite author of esteemed Old Corner Bookstore publisher’s Ticknor and Fields. Hawthorne sets his stories around Massachusetts and occasionally the far corners of New Hampshire (Check out “The...
HBI staff went for a walk through the neighboring historic Chinatown to experience the new Immigrant History Trail for ourselves! Implemented and installed by the Chinatown Community Land Trust, the Immigrant History Trail elevates the unique stories of the neighborhood’s working-class, immigrant population during a...
When Harvey Parker opened the School Street hotel in 1855, a gathering of literary luminaries — including esteemed authors published by Ticknor and Fields out of the Old Corner Bookstore: Longfellow, Emerson, and Hawthorne — began holding festive monthly meetings there known as the Saturday...
HBI made it out to Worcester for Preservation Massachusetts’s annual Historic Preservation Conference on September 27th. While it has been several years since Preservation Massachusetts held an in-person conference due to the fallout from Covid, it had been nearly ten years since the organization had...
Mayor Michelle Wu announced this week that Kathy Kottaridis will serve as the new Director of the Office of Historic Preservation, responsible for leading the City of Boston’s efforts to steward and celebrate Boston’s rich and diverse historical assets. “I am thrilled to welcome Kathy Kottaridis...
Earlier this month, HBI hosted Mass Design Group and a handful of Historic Preservation experts from across the city to engage in a discussion about the future of the Old Corner Bookstore (OCB). Mass Design Group's Jonathan Evans, Chris Scovel, Chris Hardy, and Brian Sandford...
The Jewish Advocate Building was built in 1888 and stands adjacent to HBI’s Old Corner Bookstore complex on School Street. Our neighbor Rabbi Korff had recently undertaken some façade work to maintain and preserve this building into the future. Here Rabbi Korff kindly pulls back...
72 years ago in September of 1952, Ernest Hemingway published his acclaimed novel The Old Man and the Sea, which he wrote from his beloved home in Cuba. Architect Henry Moss recounts the mid-2000s effort to restore Finca Vigia - the Hemingway Estate in Havana...
After a two-year restoration process carried out by Skylight Studios, the Old State House’s venerable gilded eagle has returned. The Old State House was constructed in 1713 under British rule, and the distinctive lion and unicorn that adorn it- which represent Britain and Scotland respectively -...