Work is underway at the Vertullo Building, and the new storefronts are taking shape. Currently, the new framework for the front windows is in place in several of the units. You can see how much more light these new windows will allow into the spaces....
The garden level apartment, taking shape at the Kittredge House A lot has happened at the Kittredge House since our last update. Today I stopped by to see some of the changes. One of the most notable additions is the work that has been done on...
Former HBI Legal Fellow, and now Associate at Kopelman and Paige, PC, Matthew Welch, has returned to update us on the state of the Boardwalk case. June 2013 was the last time HBI?s blog covered the Boardwalk case, in which the IRS denied the allocation of...
In last week's blog, Alice Gilmore of Building Conservation Associates (BCA) described the process of testing historic paint to determine the original colors of the Alvah Kittredge House. As promised, BCA has determined the original color of the house, which Alice unveils below.The results are...
Alice Gilmore and Brian Powell of Building Conservation Associates (BCA) recently volunteered to solve an important mystery for HBI: what were the original paint colors of the 1836 Alvah Kittredge House? The question came up when actor and philhellene Bronson Pinchot came to Roxbury in...
This fall Discover Roxbury hosted a talk by apple authority John Bunker, founder of Fedco, a Maine seed, tree, and garden supply company with a focus on organic growing. The topic of the evening was America?s oldest apple variety, the Roxbury Russet, which was developed...
This coming year on Friday, February 7, 2014, APTNE will be holding our Annual Meeting and Symposium at New Old South Church in Boston's Back Bay. The symposium will focus on the topic of Innovative Adaptive Reuse of Historic Structures. The symposium will begin with...
After many months of planning, we are pleased to announce that the Vertullo Buildingstorefront rehabilitation has at last begun. Try as we might to have all of the pieces into place so that we could begin the work in the warm weather, it didn?t work...
I?d like to say hello to all the readers of the HBI blog. My name is Elizabeth Bronshteyn. I?m a resident of Brighton and I am a new intern at the HBI. I am working on ways to quantify the social and economic impacts of...
The Kittredge House is now 25% complete, and the apartments are getting framed out, which is an exciting step in the construction process. The renovated Kittredge House will have five apartments. There will be two on the first floor, two on the second floor, and...
