28 Sep 2015 Historic Fowler Clark Epstein Farm Featured in The Boston Globe
The historic Fowler Clark Epstein Farm has caught the attention of Boston and today is featured in the Boston Globe. To read the full story click here. ...
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25 Sep 2015 Hint of Historic Upham’s Corner Comfort Station in Olmsted Plan for Final Jewel in the Emerald Necklace
Sometimes a bit of serendipity helps in historic preservation work. While in the early stages of researching the historic significance of the Upham's Corner Comfort Station in Dorchester, an article in the Boston Globe came out about resurrecting the plan for redeveloping ColumbiaRoad in Dorchester,...
24 Sep 2015 Henry Moss to Receive 2015 Codman Award for Lifetime Achievement in Preservation
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...
18 Sep 2015 Kathy MacNeil Elected President of HBI
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,...
11 Sep 2015 A Toast to Matthew Kiefer
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,...
04 Sep 2015 Plotting HBI’s Future
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...
27 Aug 2015 Save the Date! Join HBI and Mayor Walsh to Announce New Direction for the Historic Fowler Clark Farm on Monday, September 28, 2015, 5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Please join Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the Urban Farming Institute of Boston, The Trust for Public Land, North Bennet Street School, Historic Boston Inc. and the Mattapan Community at a special celebration on Monday, September 28, 2015 5:00 PM-7:00 PM at the historic Fowler Clark...
21 Aug 2015 A More Resilient Fowler Clark: Preparing a Historic Farmhouse for Climate Change
Photo: HBI 201412 Photo: HBI 201412 Boston architect Susan Pranger has been blogging with HBI over the last month with focus on climate change and its effects on the maintenance and materials of historic buildings. The buildings at HBI's prospective project at 1786 Fowler Clark Farm in...
19 Aug 2015 Mattapan Neighbors Gather at the Fowler Clark Farm Cookout
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...
17 Aug 2015 Alvah Kittredge House to be Awarded BPA Award in October
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...