?? HBI went to Fenway Park?s EMC club recently to help launch the Red Sox organization?s 2012 celebration of Fenway Park?s 100th anniversary. No other baseball park exudes the rich tradition of America?s Favorite Pastime or better embodies the exultations and heartbreaks of the sport....
The graveyard next to the Eustis Street Fire House, the building that will soon be Historic Boston?s new headquarters, is undergoing an extensive conservation effort to restore and preserve its remarkable and historically significant markers. Initial conservation efforts were made in 1989 through a project that Historic Boston...
My Dot Tour is now recruiting teen guides for the second year of an innovative project to explore the past, present and future of Fields Corner in Dorchester. Starting in August, these guides will offer a unique perspective on this neighborhood story that has been developing for more...
With rain in the forecast, more than a dozen students hurried to finish painting old and newly installed clapboards on the Anna Clapp Harris Smith house, a Federal period home thought to be built on an earlier 17th century foundation at 65 Pleasant Street in...
On the first sunny afternoon in a long time, a crowd of nearly 100 well-wishers gathered in Fields Corner for the ceremonial ribbon cutting at the newly-renovated Golden Building. Co-hosted by Historic Boston and Fields Corner Main Street,...
Fields Corner's Golden Building celebrates face-lift - Dorchester - Your Town - Boston.com...
Historic Boston Inc. and Mayor Thomas M. Menino just celebrated the major rehabilitation and restoration of the Golden Building in Dorchester, Historic Boston said.The $320,000 project, which included giving the 116-year-old building a new facade, is designed to spur...
Just as work is being wrapped up at the Golden Building at 1510-1514 Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner, we are very happy to report that another Historic Neighborhood Centers facilitated project is now well underway a block away at the Lenox Building. The lively, art...
The Clapp House in its modern configuration, fully built out with rear ellsThis past semester, I was somewhat of a history detective for HBI. There has long been speculation that 65 Pleasant Street was built on top of the foundation of an earlier house that...
In June, HBI will kick off its redevelopment feasibility study for the Charles River Speedway in order to assist the Mass. Department of Conservation with site disposition and stewardship planning. HBI participated in the Charrette hosted by the Boston Preservation Alliance and the Brighton Allston...
