Historic Boston Inc. (HBI) is honored to be recipient of a 2015 Paul E. Tsongas Award from Preservation Massachusetts Inc. for rehabilitation of the 1836 Alvah Kittredge House. Named for the late US Senator Paul Tsongas, whose leadership pioneered the renewal the city of Lowell...
?A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not...
Dee Spiro is Director of Sustainability at Bergmeyer Associates Inc. in Boston. She led the Eustis Street Fire House?s final certification for obtaining LEED Silver certification in 2013. Bergmeyer released a report on energy usage in the 3 years since occupancy this week.When...
Carl Todisco lives in Roxbury and is a member of the Mount Pleasant Avenue Neighborhood Association.As many people know from the news coverage and public meetings, the Dearborn School in Roxbury is threatened with demolition. Roxbury loses if the historic school building on Greenville Street...
Photo L-R: Austin Blackmon, City of Boston; Sheila Dillon, City of Boston; Kathy Kottaridis, HBI; Ira Baline, Bergmeyer ; Lisa Lewis, HBI; Brian Goosens, Lee Kennedy Co.; Noelle Muller, Lee Kennedy Co.,; Dee Spiro, Bergmeyer; and Jeffrey Morgan, HBI.Member?s of HBI?s development team for the 2011...
It?s been years in the ?re-making? ? not too unlike the crafting of a good beer. The Roslindale Village MBTA Substation, currently being redeveloped by the Peregrine Group in partnership with HBI and Roslindale Village Main Street after decades of abandonment, will be home to Craft...
You may have seen a recent post about the 3D laser scanning of the 1786 Fowler Clark House in Mattapan. That effort by Feldman Land Surveyors generated a terrific film of the building as it currently stands that will help us to accurately measure...
The Wine Galleryrecently opened its third retail outlet in HBI?s Hayden Buildingat 681 Washington Streetlocated in the Chinatown-Theater District area of Boston. It is a boutique wine and spirits shop that strives to have something for everyone. They specialize in eclectic and rare wines to...
Mayor Martin J. Walshrecently unveiled a series of free events scheduled throughout 2015 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Boston Landmarks Commission. TitledBLC XL, this anniversary series, features four seasonal programs celebrating Boston?s historic places and the progress made during the past four decades...
There?s no finer place in which to make a presentation than Dorchester?s Strand Theater, and that?s where HBI, The American City Coalition (TACC) and bicycle entrepreneur Noah Hickspresented their partnership proposal for rehabilitation of the 1922 Uphams Corner Comfort Station to an audience of about...