In this season of giving, we are grateful for your support and hope you will join us before the end of 2015 with a tax deductible contribution to Historic Boston (HBI). Thanks to you, 2015 was a banner year of achievement for us. In addition to...
1. HBI Strengthens Boston's Main Streets In 2015, HBI completed restoration of the 1868 Vertullo Building in Hyde Park, one of the few surviving commercial buildings dating from the year in which Hyde Park was established as an independent town. HBI acquired the mixed use building...
It is with great pleasure that HBI announces the addition of Perkins + Will (P+W) to the design team for the renovation and redevelopment of the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm to become the home and headquarters for the Urban Farming Institute (UFI). P+W approached HBI through...
Each year at Thanksgiving, staff at Historic Boston share their favorite Thanksgiving recipes. But this year we changed it up a little; we asked our new friend Phyllis Tobin of Newton to share one of her favorites. Mrs. Tobin grew up in Mattapan just down the...
Last Friday,Jamaica Plain's Historical Society's Michael Reiskind stopped by HBI to deliver an apple pie. This was no ordinary pie, but a "Roxbury Russet" apple pie. The Roxbury Russet Apple is the oldest named apple in America , dating back to the 1600s. While they...
This is Part 2 of a series of blogs whereby HBI's Jeffrey Morgan discusses various preservation partnering scenarios and the opportunities they present to steward long vacant and blighted properties to new uses that add new life to their communities thereby contributing to the economic...
HBI is honored to be the recipient of a program-related investment (PRI) from the 1772 Foundation of Rhode Island that will be used to support pre-development work on HBI projects. The 1772 Foundation will give HBI a $400,000 low-interest loan at a fixed rate of...
Last night HBI's Council of Advisors gathered at Millennium Tower Sales Office to discuss HBI's strategic plans for the next five years. Their feedback proved valuable as we finalize our planning for the next few years. If you'd like to know more about HBI's strategic...
Preservation redevelopment business models The business model for real estate redevelopment of historic properties has typically been one of two primary approaches. In the first approach, a preservation advocacy group identifies a significant building where its use was inherently tied to its significance, for example, the...
New Stonework In August 2014, the Historic Burying Ground Initiative, a part of the Boston Parks and Recreation Department received a grant from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Signature Urban Parks Program. A portion of that grant was allocated to renovating the...