At the ribbon cutting for the Hayden Building, Historic Boston and its friends had another achievement to announce: we've surpassed the mid-point of The Trilogy Fund, HBI's $1 million capital campaign to preserve three at-risk historic buildings. The first of the three, the Hayden Building,...
Interested in renting one of the new lofts at the Hayden Building? Maxwell and Associates will be hosting an open house on Saturday, March 23rd and Sunday, March 24th from 12:00pm to 1:30pm. Stop by to see how you could live in a historic building...
The previous Boardwalk blog post focused on the limited likelihood of the Supreme Court granting Historic Boardwalk Hall?s appeal due to a lack of judicial resources. The points raised in HBH?s petition however, merit discussion. Should the Supreme Court decide to expend some of its limited judicial...
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, Massachusetts announces a lecture to be...
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...
