On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere set off on his famed “midnight ride.” The next day the Battle of Lexington and Concord unfolded and the “shot heard round the world” ignited the Revolutionary War. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” originally published out of the...
Historic Boston is pleased to announce that we have sold the Hayden Building, passing the stewardship of this iconic H.H. Richardson building to a family that has admired this pillar of Chinatown for several years. Designed by Henry Hobson Richardson in 1875, the Hayden Building proudly...
Dr. Karilyn Crockett is a Professor of Urban History, Public Policy and Planning in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. She has provided invaluable perspectives to HBI, serving on our Board of Directors since 2019. In Cedar Grove Cemetery, two stone slabs with the inscription...
Find the space you’ve been looking for with this highly visible ground-floor commercial space along the historic Freedom Trail in Boston’s Downtown Crossing. 5-9 School Street was constructed approximately 110 years after the famed gambrel-roofed Old Corner Bookstore at 3 School Street in 1828. It served...
St. Luke’s Chapel (c.1901) is nearing the end of a four year long rehabilitation that has restored the sanctuary space with a fully accessible basement that now holds restrooms and a kitchenette. Wenda Kochanowski is a Decorative Arts Conservator and has been working with the...
On January 24th, Boston City hall was officially designated a local Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission (BLC). Efforts to protect the building with a landmark designation were initiated in 2007. Nearly twenty years later, on the eve of Boston’s 250th anniversary of igniting the American...
Historic Boston’s Executive Director Kathy Kottaridis left the organization at the end of 2024 to become Mayor Wu’s Director of the Office of Historic Preservation in the City of Boston. After stewarding HBI staff and mission for over 17 years, we honored her leadership with...
Winteractive is back in Boston for its second year! Spearheaded by the Downtown Boston Alliance, in partnership with the Consulate General of Canada in Boston, the Quebec Government Office in Boston, MEET Boston, WNDR Boston, and the City of Boston, this annual art installation is...
In December Stacy Thompson joined Historic Boston as our Interim Executive Director. She’ll be with HBI for the next several months while we embark on hiring a permanent Executive Director. Stacy has been working with non-profits in Boston for more than 15 years. A relentless optimist,...
It was recently discovered that Louisa May Alcott may have written her own version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol under the pseudonym E.H. Gould. A post-doctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University, Max Chapnick, unearthed his discovery of the potential Alcott pseudonym E.H. Gould when...