Seniors at Codman Academy Charter Public School organized their own tour of Codman Square in May to highlight the community?s assets and history. It builds on "My Dot Tour," a youth tour of historic and cultural strengths in Dorchester's Fields Corner, developed in 2010 by...
HBI?s Council of Advisors and friends gathered for their spring meeting May 13th and the focus was the Alvah Kittredge House (1836) and the classical architecture that inspired the American Greek Revival period in which it was built.The afternoon program began with a behind-the-scenes visit...
Eastern Bank?s President and Chief Operating Officer, Robert Rivers, paid a visit to the Alvah Kittredge House this week to check in on progress of the historic property?s rehabilitation. Eastern Bank recently presented HBI with a $20,000 Partnership Grant from its charitable foundation toward restoration...
Quite a bit of work has been going on at the Vertullo Building in Hyde Park, and it's about time that we shared some of the great progress being made by our team. The most notable change is the extension of the storefronts around the...
It?s been about four months since we checked in at the Kittredge House, and there has been a lot of progress made. Now that drywall is up, and the kitchen cabinets are in, the spaces are really starting to feel like apartments. Some of the...
HBI is thrilled to announce that the Hayden Building will receive one of this year?s Massachusetts Historical Commission Preservation Awards HBI?s restoration of the Hayden Building, H. H. Richardson?s last standing commercial building in Boston, resulted in four new apartments and a retail space in...
Spring has brought rapid progress on the rehabilitation of the Alvah Kittredge House, which is on schedule for completion in June. If you might be interested in living in one of these beautiful, unique apartments, here?s what you need to know....
Chris Brown of b Architecture Studio is the architect that is working on the rehabilitation of the storefronts on the Vertullo Building. As a part of his research for the project, he and his team had to undertake a significant investigation of 19th century signage...
We are reposting an article from the April 6thBoston Sunday Globe Magazine in which HBI is noted. The story follows on recent news of efforts in Congress to revise the federal tax code and proposals to eliminate tax incentives, including the federal rehabilitation tax credit. ...
Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation (APIAHIP) and Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center are hosting a workshop called ?East at Main? in Chinatown on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 5:30-7:00 PM at the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, 38 Ash St., in Boston. The workshop aims...
