Earlier this week we began a two-part blog post series focusing on the many interesting and unexpected things we discovered about the Vertullo Building in planning for its rehabilitation. Assembling this knowledge?both historic and physical?into a coherent story not only sheds light on community history...
On August 31, 2012, Historic Boston submitted an application to the Massachusetts Historical Commission for an allocation of Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits to help subsidize the comprehensive rehab of the building at 74-84 Fairmount Avenue in Hyde Park. This was the culmination of almost a...
An example of a cherub design. This stone from the Eliot Burial Ground dates to 1712HBI?s Office Manager Gillian Lang follows a fascination with the next door Eliot Burying Ground and discovers more about early Roxbury society through the imagery carved on centuries-old slate gravemarkers...
Historic Boston Inc. is conducting physical assessments of Boston?s two oldest frame church buildings: the 1804 First Church Roxbury in Roxbury?s Highland Park and the 1806 Second Congregational Church in Dorchester?s Codman Square. While these two sites have deep historical connections to their neighborhoods and...
Image of raw asbestos, courtesy of Envirotest Labs For all the romance of historic building preservation, one always has to face the reality that, in old buildings, there?s always the potential for finding hazardous materials which will need to be removed by a qualified contractor. We...
This summer, HBI was lucky enough to enlist the assistance of Haley Wilcox, a Boston University Preservation grad student, to intern with us. Among other helpful tasks, Haley spent part of the summer compiling a commercial case book of Cleary and Logan Squares in Boston's...
The Hayden Building is once more, making its presence known in the blogosphere. On July 31, Barbara Epstein, of the LoeBlog, (the blog that chronicles the work being done by past and present Loeb Fellows) just posted on it and the preservation of the building....
RoslindaleVillage Main Streets hosted HBI Board and Staff for a behind the scenes tour of the 1911 RoslindaleSubstation and an evening stroll around the village on July 26th. Both organizations were designated by the Boston Redevelopment Authority to identify a feasible re-use of the historic...
Historic Boston Inc. is pleased to announce allocations of Massachusetts Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits for two HBI projects, each for $300,000. The 1836 Alvah Kittredge House in Roxburyreceived its second allocation of credits, bringing that project?s total to $600,000 of the $814,000 for which it...
SummerFeast 2012, a gospel jamboree and jerk chicken cook-off, is almost upon us, and it is going to be a summer celebration to remember!Join in the Festivities August 18th, 2012 from 3:00pm to 7:00pm at HBI's neighbor in Dudley Square, Haley House Cafe-12 Dade Street,...
