As the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party approaches on December 16th, Historic Boston wondered what the residents of the Old Corner Bookstore would have seen from their windows on that fateful night in 1773 when a massive crowd of Bostonians protest the English...
As 2023 comes to a close, we are reflecting on the year of accomplishment at Historic Boston. To recap, here are the most exciting developments for HBI in 2023: Comfort Kitchen opened in the newly restored Upham’s Corner Comfort Station in January and celebrated with a...
As HBI sets its sights on rebranding and re-activating a new interpretive experience at the Old Corner Bookstore, we thought you might like to hear some of the intriguing misconceptions of this Freedom Trail landmark and Boston’s oldest commercial building in Boston. Without further adieu,...
It’s a merrier and brighter season around the Old Corner Bookstore this year. The building’s newest tenant, Old Corner Christmas, is open for its very first holiday season, and the shop is drawing locals and visitors shopping for holiday gifts and decorations! You might think there’s...
HBI's projects like the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm in Mattapan, the Alvah Kittredge House in Roxbury, and the Eustis Street Fire House in Nubian Square could only be done with the availability of the Federal Historic Tax Credit (HTC) program, a valuable source of capital...
The Historic Boston team is on a mission to prepare the Old Corner Bookstore complex (OCB) for its next century. That means that climate resilience and energy efficiency must be the cornerstone for planning repairs and upgrades. In addition to preparing for extreme heat and...
Have you ever wondered what your neighborhood looked like 10, 20, 50, or even 100 years ago? Here at HBI, we often find ourselves employing a number of useful tools when we’re researching a historic site. We encourage you to take another look at “Rooting Out...
It has come to the attention of Historic Boston Inc. that the family of our organization’s founder, John Codman, had a personal connection to the enslavement of Black Bostonians in the 18th century. We stumbled across this information by chance, as the newest member of...
Historic Boston is honored to have received two awards for the preservation of the historic Upham’s Corner Comfort Station in Dorchester. On October 11th, Preservation Massachusetts presented HBI with the Paul & Niki Tsongas Award at a ceremony at the Massachusetts State House. The event...
Historic Boston Incorporated (HBI) is thrilled to announce the election of Christopher Scoville, Senior Vice President of Commercial Lending at Eastern Bank, to its Board of Directors in August. With his extensive background in finance and a longstanding commitment to historic preservation, Chris brings a...