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...
HBI is pleased to announce that the Eastern Bank Charitable Fund presented Historic Boston Inc. with a generous $20,000 grant toward rehabilitation of the historic Alvah Kittredge House in Roxbury for five mixed income housing units. Committed to contributing meaningfully to the health and vitality of...
Bronson Pinchot pays a visit to Kittredge HouseBoston.comNovember 25, 2013Fan conventions like the one held over the weekend at the Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference Center make Bronson Pinchot feel a little sad. The actor best remembered for playing Balki on ?Perfect Strangers? (or perhaps...
HBI recently learned that the Eustis Street Fire House has earned a LEED Silver Certification from the United States Green Building Council. LEED is a rating system that quantifies the efficiency and environmental impact of a building. For New Construction/Major Renovations, a project has to...
Last Friday, November 8th, the staff of Historic Boston Inc. received a behind the scenes tour of the work being done on the Parish of All Saints in Dorchester. The Parish is in the middle of a huge restoration project, which you can learn more...
We are pleased to present the second installment of Kittredge architect, David Amory's blog post on the history of the Alvah Kittredge House. This post highlights the life of the house from the 1890's to the present. Roxbury Action ProgramWith continued development in Roxbury, rising real...
