This month HBI’s Erika Tauer kicks off a series of stories that turn the spotlight onto the talented people who make up Historic Boston’s organization. HBI board member Henry Moss has headed Bruner/Cott Architect’s Historic Preservation team since 1986 and practiced architecture in London for 16...
Last week, Historic Boston completed the sale of the 1786 Fowler Clark Epstein Farm in Mattapan to the Urban Farming Institute. The sale includes UFI’s donation of a preservation easement on the restored property to Historic Boston Inc.(HBI), which will protect the Boston Landmarks’ historic...
As the year comes to a close, HBI is in the final stage of selling the 1786 Fowler Clark Epstein Farm in Mattapan to the nonprofit Urban Farming Institute (UFI) with the aim of completing the transaction by December 31st. The sale will include the...
As the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party approaches on December 16th, Historic Boston wondered what the residents of the Old Corner Bookstore would have seen from their windows on that fateful night in 1773 when a massive crowd of Bostonians protest the English...
As 2023 comes to a close, we are reflecting on the year of accomplishment at Historic Boston. To recap, here are the most exciting developments for HBI in 2023: Comfort Kitchen opened in the newly restored Upham’s Corner Comfort Station in January and celebrated with a...
As HBI sets its sights on rebranding and re-activating a new interpretive experience at the Old Corner Bookstore, we thought you might like to hear some of the intriguing misconceptions of this Freedom Trail landmark and Boston’s oldest commercial building in Boston. Without further adieu,...
It’s a merrier and brighter season around the Old Corner Bookstore this year. The building’s newest tenant, Old Corner Christmas, is open for its very first holiday season, and the shop is drawing locals and visitors shopping for holiday gifts and decorations! You might think there’s...
HBI's projects like the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm in Mattapan, the Alvah Kittredge House in Roxbury, and the Eustis Street Fire House in Nubian Square could only be done with the availability of the Federal Historic Tax Credit (HTC) program, a valuable source of capital...
The Historic Boston team is on a mission to prepare the Old Corner Bookstore complex (OCB) for its next century. That means that climate resilience and energy efficiency must be the cornerstone for planning repairs and upgrades. In addition to preparing for extreme heat and...
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...