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Among the 10 recipients of the 2012 Henry L. Shattuck Public Service Awards was Ellen Lipsey, director of the City of Boston?s Landmarks Commission.  Lipsey, who has been the BLC?s director since 1993, is the first member of the City?s preservation staff to receive the...

Last Saturday, November 10th brought crowds to the Eustis Street Fire House, for the first annual Eustis Street Harvest Fest, an event presented by the Common Thread Coalition, and hosted by Historic Boston Inc. Common Thread is a coalition made up of Dudley Square based...

Screen shot of laser scans of 72 Dale Street (courtesy of Harry R. Feldman Inc.)This week we are happy to have a talented group of guest bloggers tell us about the archaeological work being done at the Malcolm X House. U Mass Archaeological Services has...

Every year, students from the Roxbury Latin School visit the Eliot Burying Ground, and pay tribute to their school?s founder, John Eliot. Eliot arrived in Roxbury in 1631 after having crossed the Atlantic aboard The Lyon, the same boat that carried the wife and children...

For nearly 10 years now, the blighted and boarded-up Ferdinand Building (1895) and the hole in the ground behind it were Dudley Square?s equivalent to downtown Boston?s Filenes site. Many plans have repeatedly raised and dashed this community?s hope that a long-vacant building in the very heart...

On Friday, October 19, 2012, Ira Kantor of the Boston Herald reported on the BRA approval of funding for the Alvah Kittredge house in Roxbury. Read the article here; The BRA Grants $200G for Historic Roxbury Home Conversion...