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...
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...
