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Have you ever wondered what your neighborhood looked like 10, 20, 50, or even 100 years ago?  Here at HBI, we often find ourselves employing a number of useful tools when we’re researching a historic site. We encourage you to take another look at “Rooting Out...

Historic Boston is honored to have received two awards for the preservation of the historic Upham’s Corner Comfort Station in Dorchester. On October 11th, Preservation Massachusetts presented HBI with the Paul & Niki Tsongas Award at a ceremony at the Massachusetts State House. The event...

Historic Boston’s mission statement says that we redevelop at-risk historic buildings in order to help Boston’s neighborhoods thrive. In introducing the organization to others, we often explain that we don’t create house museums, but rather we find new uses for historic buildings. Our projects are...

On August 24th, the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) hosted a virtual public meeting to summarize its final final draft of PLAN: Boston, an ambitious new framework for the “growth, enhancement, and preservation” in Downtown Boston. The BPDA’s work on a downtown plan that...

HBI's Director of Real Estate Development, Tony Lopes, researched the Old Corner Bookstore's most iconic tenant of the 20th c. Introduction In the heart of Boston's Downtown Crossing, nestled at the corner of Washington and School Streets, stands a time-honored structure that has witnessed the ebb and...