This blog post was contributed by Gerald Robbins, Executive Director of Hyde Jackson Square Main Streets in Jamaica Plain.Hyde Jackson Square Main Street (HJSMS) is one of the first pilot communities in the United States to participate in America Saves!,a national effort to improve the...
The Jamaica Plain Historical Society announced last week that it has purchased a cache of 900 photographs of the public life of legendary Boston Mayor James Michael Curley. See some of them here and visit the web site of the Society here In...
Rosanne Foley of Dorchester was recently named Executive Director of the Boston Landmarks Commission. A long time neighborhood activist in Dorchester and a friend to history and historic preservation, Rosanne was most recently executive director of Fields Corner Main Street, advancing the revitalization and management...
While the completion of the exterior rehabilitation of the Vertullo Building in Hyde Park is on hold until spring when it will receive its final coats of paint, we think the recent addition of window shutters has made a huge impact in its appearance. ...
John Horner PhotographyJohn Horner PhotographyHBI?s Hayden Building in downtown Boston currently has one apartment available to rent. There are only four residential units in the building ? one per floor. The available apartment is on the 4th floor, which was the first to rent when the...
Join the preservation staff of the City of Boston as it presents the 2014 accomplishments of the Boston Landmarks Commission, Local Historic District Commissions and the City Archaeology Program, and hear about our plans and priorities for 2015.This public event will be held in the...
Rendering by Utile, Inc. Architecture + PlanningFour proposals were received by the Department of Neighborhood Development (DND) for the redevelopment of the 611 Columbia Road Comfort Station in Upham?s Corner. Three of the proposals, including the one submitted by the team of HBI, The American...
The historic Coleman Webb Building on Columbus Avenue at Jackson Square is nearing completion as part of a mixed use commercial and housing redevelopment thanks to Urban Edge CDC and the Jackson Square Planning Initiative. The project is demonstrating the value of historic preservation...
Driving along Green Street between Main and High Streets in Charlestown, MA you might just miss an important piece of Massachusetts, United States, and Civil War history if you don?t know what you?re looking for. Quietly and unassumingly tucked between the back of the High...
Former HBI Board Member and current CEO and President of Urban Edge CDC, Chrystal Kornegay was named Undersecretary of the Department of Housing and Community Developmentfor the Commonweath of Massachusetts in Governor-elect Charlie Baker?s administration.Kornegay, who continues as a member of HBI?s Council of Advisors,...
