It is getting dark early these days, but the streetscape on Fairmount Avenue in Hyde Park just got a bit brighter with the recent installation of a Broadway-style sign over the entry to the Everett Square Theatre. Fabricated by Boston Sign, the design is based...
HBI has begun working with Rodnell Collins, the nephew of Malcolm Little -- known to most as Malcolm X -- about the house in Roxbury that Rodnell grew up in but which Malcolm X would have stayed in for long periods of time in his...
As part of the celebration of HBI's 50th birthday and Fenway Park's 100th, honorary guest, Bill Littlefield read the following poem. It was a big hit, and so we thought that we would share it with you all here.Sox To See New Park Tear down the...
Bill Brett, Boston?s preeminent social chronicler, came to our 50th anniversary celebration at Fenway Park on Nov. 3, and generated some wonderful photos of those who joined in feting HBI, including Mayor Thomas M. Menino and NPR?s ?All in The Game?s? host, Bill Littlefield. Here?s...
Historic Boston Inc. celebrated 50 years of preservation on Thursday with a reception in one of Boston?s premier preservation properties, Fenway Park.The ballpark was the perfect setting having been eyed just ten years ago for demolition. Instead, it was restored and now stands as a...
One of the biggest challenges HBI encountered during construction at the Eustis Street Fire House was excavating next to a historic cemetery that contains many unmarked graves. Although we made every effort to minimize digging, there was no way of avoiding it altogether, since we...
HBI congratulates the City of Boston and Mayor Menino, Boston?s preservation community, Emerson College and Suffolk University on receipt of a National Honor Award for revitalization of the historic theaters on Washington Street at the National Preservation Conference in Buffalo last week. It was 15 years...
Article written by Historic Boston's 1772 Foundation Fellow and Project Manager, Peter ErharticMany changes have been occurring at Historic Boston?s Anna Clapp Harris Smith House in Dorchester. Over the past year the fa?ade as been restored back to its federal roots after a 100 year...
?Before the Snow Flies?.? Preparing Your House of Worship for Winter: A Workshop by the Boston Preservation Alliance Saturday, October 29th, at 10 am St. Mary?s Episcopal Church, 14 Cushing Ave. Dorchester What can you do to protect your historic religious building from the rigors...
We launched the blog on April Fool?s Day in 2010 with a brief note that it would be the place to find HBI news. We followed that with a behind-the-scenes look at preservation of the Anna Clapp Harris Smith House at 65 Pleasant Street in...
