Our guest blogger today is Matthew Kiefer, HBI's Board President, who discusses his and HBI's early involvement with the Hayden Building.At the end of February, Historic Boston re-dedicated the Hayden Building in Chinatown, an occasion marked by writhing lion dancers, excellent food, general pageantry and...
City of Boston transportation planner Addy Smith-Reiman continues her update on the activities and events surrounding the new initiative of the Menino administration and the National Park Service that will link the ferry, bus, T and Hubway to historic sites throughout downtown. How would you call...
Located adjacent to the Eustis Street Burying Ground in Roxbury, the Owen Nawn Factory is a reminder of Roxbury's commercial industrial past. Built in 1880, it is a modest two-story vernacular factory building exhibiting no particular style. It was named for its owner, Owen Nawn,...
Thursday, January 28th was a big day for HBI. After twenty years, the new design for the Hayden Building, H.H. Richardson's last surviving commercial building in Boston, was unveiled. The Ribbon Cutting was a celebration of Boston architecture, preservation, and the Chinatown neighborhood that the...
by Jeffrey Gonyeau, Senior Program ManagerOn the one hand, it is hard to believe that it has been 5 years since HBI first launched the Historic NeighborhoodCenters program in Hyde Park and Fields Corner. The time seems to have flown by in a flurry of...
After 12 years, HBI bids farewell on March 8th to Jeffrey Gonyeau, our Senior Program Manager for the Historic Neighborhood Centers program. Jeff has accepted a new position as the fundraising coordinator for the comprehensive restoration of All Saints, Ashmont in Dorchester. While the project...
HBI is pleased to hear that Board Member, Jay Wickersham has been appointed as Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture, effective 1 January 2013. Wickersham has previously served as a Lecturer in Architecture at the GSD, teaching courses in architectural practice and ethics, the history of architectural...
Largest intact Tiffany-designed ecclesiastical interior in AmericaBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS (February 11, 2013) ? Boston's Church of the Covenant at Newbury and Berkeley Streets in Boston?s Back Bay neighborhood has been named a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar. The public...
Image courtesy of The Shirley Eustis House The Shirley-Eustis House Announces Lecture on Thursday, February 21, 2012?On the Road to Boston: Remembering Historic Structures in Roxbury?BOSTON, Mass. ? The Shirley-Eustis House, a National Historic Landmark house museum and carriage house at 33 Shirley Street in Boston,...
