We feature a guest post here from Earl Taylor, President of the Dorchester Historical Society and the owner/creator of content for the Dorchester Athenaeum website (www.dorchesteratheneum.org). He shares with us research he has been compiling on Boston’s many extant mile markers from the 18th and 19th...
In recent years, breweries have started to repopulate the Boston landscape, often in unused industrial spaces. The long-vacant the Roslindale Substation (1911) has become one such place. The station was originally home to Boston Elevated Railway Company’s then revolutionary alternating electric current power system, but...
Chances are you have walked or driven right past one of Boston’s oldest cemeteries without even knowing it! The Eliot Burying Ground (formerly known as Old Roxbury Burying Ground and Eustis Street Burying Ground) is the oldest burying ground in Roxbury and one of the...
Built between 1786 and 1806, the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm remains among the earliest intact, vernacular examples of an agricultural property in the Commonwealth’s cities. The original farmhouse is located on land that was once part of a large Dorchester estate encompassing over 330 acres....
See a full recap of the conference's sessions here. On September 20th, the Historic Boston staff traveled to Plymouth, MA for the Massachusetts Historic Preservation Conference. Since 2015, the Massachusetts Historic Preservation Conference has hosted an biennial program in partnership with preservation organizations and agencies around...
Roslindale Village celebrates two new things in September: the installation of a new multi-story window on the façade of the historic Roslindale Substation (1911) and the permanent arrival of Turtle Swamp Brewing company in the substation. The beautiful glass installation overlooks Adams Village and allows pedestrians...
The church built at the corner of Cedar St. and Hawthorne St. has been home to two major congregations since its construction in 1910: The Norwegian Evangelical Congregational Church (1910-1955) and The African Orthodox Church (1955-2010). Initially serving a Norwegian population, who had come to...
On August 24, Historic Boston and the Boston Preservation Alliance teamed up to conduct their second walking tour: Beer + Mortar: Another Round. The historic walking tour snaked its way through Roxbury, highlighting historic architecture and art along a 2-mile route. A group of twenty people...
Blog post by NBSS Staff North Bennet Street School (NBSS) recently took on a vacant retail space in Boston's Downtown Crossing for a temporary showcase of traditional trades. Offered to NBSS by Historic Boston Inc (HBI)—which owns the Freedom Trail-adjacent site—the small storefront space features demonstrations...
Now nearing completion of a $1.4 million restoration and rehabilitation of the 1912 Upham’s Corner Comfort Station in Dorchester, HBI is pleased to announce a partnership Biplaw Rai and Nyacko Perry, who plan to open Comfort Kitchen, a daytime café and pop-up dinner experience featuring...