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March 1, 2013 Ribbon Cutting at Hayden Building a Success

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...

March 1, 2013 Historic Neighborhood Centers?The View at Year 5

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...

March 1, 2013 The Irreplaceable Jeffrey Gonyeau

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...

February 21, 2013 You’re Invited-Hayden Ribbon Cutting and Open House

February 21, 2013 HBI Board Member, Jay Wickersham, Appointed Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture

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...

February 15, 2013 Church of the Covenant in Boston to Celebrate National Historic Landmark Status on Sunday, February 24

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...

February 15, 2013 POSTPONED-Mark Your Calendar! The Shirley Eustis House is Hosting a Lecture on the Eustis Street Fire House

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,...

February 11, 2013 Mark your calendars for Boston Past and Future: Architectural Transformation at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

February 11, 2013 Boardwalk Case to go to the Supreme Court?

In previous blog posts we discussed the IRS?s decision to deny the allocation of federal historic tax credits to the corporate member of a redevelopment project partnership associated with the rehabilitation of the Historic Boardwalk Hall in New Jersey.  In United States Tax Court the...

January 29, 2013 Q&A: Architect David Lee on Preservation, Interpretation and the Malcolm X-Ella Little-Collins House

HBI selected David Lee, partner at the Boston-based firm Stull and Lee, to assess the Malcolm X-Ella Little Collins House, and provide conceptual design for its re-use.  David discussed with HBI his work on this important landmark, the meaning of Malcolm X in his life,...