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...
New life for city?s oldest firehouseDudley Square building undergoes $2.5m renovationOctober 03, 2011|By Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff Kathy Kottaridis, Historic Boston executive director, showed old photos? (John Tlumacki/Globe Staff) Abandoned for half a century, Boston?s oldest firehouse spent decades sliding into decay: boarded-up, overgrown, and...
The large crowd attending the ribbon cutting of Historic Boston Inc.?s new Dudley Square headquarters was an indication of just how important this project is to the community.More than 150 people came to tour the building, hear from Boston?s Mayor Thomas M. Menino and other...
Dudley Square has long stood as a gateway to Roxbury and the surrounding southern neighborhoods of Boston. During the colonial period, when the delicate Roxbury Neck Road, now Washington Street, served as the only land bridge between Boston and mainland Massachusetts, Dudley saw all traffic...
Working on the new iron fenceLast week brought three new physical transformations to the Eustis Street Fire House. Two dying trees in the Eliot Burying Ground that stood near the fire house for many years were removed, resulting in a lot more light into our offices...
