HBI has been benefitted in recent years from a strong relationship with students in Boston University?s graduate program in historic preservation. HBI has provided internship opportunities for several students with the intent of giving the students a taste of ?real world? preservation that is focused...
A Sweet New Business in Dorchester's Fields CornerYvonne Abraham The Boston Globe November 22, 2012There is blind optimism, and then there is insanity.Beverly Hilaire cops to the latter, but with a qualification. ?I call it calculated insanity,? she says. ?I do know I?m going against the odds...
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...
Jeffrey Morgan, HBI's new Director of Real Estate Development was an invited speaker at TEDxDesMoines, part of TED's "City 2.0". Jeff was one of several experts from many different areas of practice to present their perspectives on the future of Urbanism in October. We are pleased...
Fourteen year old Devin Quinlin is an eighth grader at Roxbury Latin. Devin is a scholar athelete, who plays three sports for RL, and is particularly interested in English and French. He recently took part in the annual service day at the Eliot Burying Grounds, next...
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...
Common Thread's next big event is here! Eustis Street Harvest Fest is going to be held TOMORROW-SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH from 2-6. Come celebrate fall with your whole family on Eustis Street, at the corner of Washington and Eustis. There will be caramel apple making, popcorn...
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...
