Evelyn Darling, executive director for Fields Corner Main Street, in front of the Golden Building. Photo courtesy ofThe Boston Herald and photographer Dominick ReuterOn Sunday, October 7, The Boston Herald featured a lengthy story about the revitalization of Dorchester?s Fields Corner, one of Historic Boston?s...
The annual Boston Preservation Alliance, Preservation Achievement Awards were held this past Wednesday at the beautifully restored Paramount Center in downtown Boston. This year HBI was proud to be among the winners. HBI projects were recognized in two categories. The Eustis Street Fire House won in...
Chris Johns on the scaffold Pam Bailey with HBI Board President Matthew Kiefer HBI is in the midst of rehabilitating the H.H. Richardson?s landmark Hayden Building into four residential apartments and one ground floor retail space. Our architect is CUBE design + research and our contractor is...
Alex Krieger, a member of Historic Boston's Board of Directors was nominated to the Commission of Fine Arts, by President Barack Obama. Among many accomplishments, Mr. Krieger is a long time professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, as well as being a founding principal...
HBI was pleased to play an important role over the last two years in the completion of a comprehensive historic structure report for the Parish of All Saints, Ashmont?an architecturally significant church in Boston?s Dorchester neighborhood.As the first church design by noted Gothic Revival Architect...
If you enjoyed Summerfeast, you are going to love Common Thread's next event, tomorrow, Saturday, September 22, 2012 from 3-6Drumming "Down Dudley"Join in for drumming, arts, activities, refreshments, entertainment and more at the Dudley Library Plaza!To learn more click here....
Historic Boston Inc. is pleased to announce that it has received three grants for restoration planning and projects at the Malcolm X-Ella Little Collins House in Roxbury. Two grants, totaling $79,000, are contributions from the 1772 Foundation of Connecticut and a third grant of $8,250 is...
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...
