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    HBI board member Henry Moss will receive the Boston Preservation Alliance's Codman Award for Lifetime Achievement in Historic Preservation at the organization's annual awards ceremony in October.   The Hayden Building The award acknowledges Henry's many years of professional and volunteer work in Boston's preservation community through...

    Historic Boston welcomed its new president Kathleen MacNeil at the September meeting of its Board of Directors.  Kathy has served on the HBI Board of Directors for five years and was most recently its Vice President. Kathy is currently a principal at MDA Partners LLC,...

    Historic Boston honored Matt Kiefer's twenty-five years of board service and leadership at a celebration at the Union Club in Boston on September 9th. Matt Kiefer has served on HBI's Board of Directors for 25 years and has been president for 12. During Matt's presidency,...

    Allston Hall Over the last nine months, HBI's board of directors and staff have been updating the organization's strategic plan with two core objectives: 1) to identify historic properties in Boston's neighborhoods for redevelopment; and 2) to determine the impact goals HBI preservation projects and activities...

Last week Historic Boston Inc., along with The Urban Farming Institute(UFI) and The Trust for Public Land (TPL) invited friends and neighbors of the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm to a community cookout and conversation in Mattapan. It was a gorgeous summer evening and an atmosphere...

  HBI is proud to learn that its rehabilitation of Roxbury's Alvah Kittredge House (1836) will received a Boston Preservation Alliance Award in October.    The $3.8 million project, completed in August 2014, transformed the long-blighted Greek Revival mansion into five residential units, two of which are designated...

Last week, HBI joined staff from the Urban Farming Institute to visit Newton Community Farm (NCF). Located on the historic Angino farmstead in Newton, MA, the city-owned site spans nearly 2 ? acres. Newton Community Farm is a nonprofit organization that strives to educate the...

In June guest blogger/architect/Boston resident Susan Pranger wrote about the potential future impacts of climate change on historicbuildings.  In part two of her blog, Sue discusses possible climate-related damage to wood at the 1786 Fowler Clark Farm in Mattapan, which was recently acquired by HBI. ...