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19 Sep The Atlantic, Boston and the Old Corner Bookstore
In July of 2022, the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced that the entire archive of what The Atlantic published from 1857 to 2014 is now fully digitized and available on line. The 165-year-old magazine traces its roots to the 1718 Old Corner Bookstore — the...
22 Aug What’s the Old Corner Bookstore’s Carbon Footprint? My summer of trying to find out
HBI’s summer intern Chris Impellizeri’s major summer project has been helping HBI understand energy usage of the Old Corner Bookstore complex in order to inform ways we might reduce the property’s carbon footprint and improve its energy performance over time. Simple as it may sound,...
23 May HBI to undertake summer repairs to Old Corner Bookstore
Visitors to downtown Boston later this summer will discover scaffolding and construction workers at the corner of School and Washington Streets as Historic Boston begins a series of necessary repairs to the four historic buildings that comprise the Old Corner Bookstore complex. The majority of...
20 May Return of the Bagel: Brueggers re-opens at the Old Corner Bookstore
If you’ve been hankering for a bagel in downtown Boston, the good news is that long time purveyor Brueggers Bagels is open again at the historic Old Corner Bookstore after a two-year hiatus due to Covid-19 closures. In March 2020, like most retail enterprises in...
17 Mar 1772 Foundation Awards HBI grant for Old Corner Bookstore
Historic Boston was honored to receive a grant of $50,000 from the 1772 Foundation this month to support planned repairs and preservation investments at the 1718 Old Corner Bookstore in downtown Boston. The funding will be devoted to upcoming roof repair and masonry repairs, to...
01 Feb Part escape room, part interactive museum: Room Escapers plans literary adventure for Old Corner Bookstore
Hello there, Jeff Boyer here – Guest blogger for Historic Boston this month and Chief Joy Instigator of Room Escapers Boston! We are a small and local Escape Room company that has two locations in downtown Boston – one of these being inside the beautiful...
29 Oct HBI begins upgrades to the Old Corner Bookstore
When Historic Boston (HBI) moved its headquarters back to our original office space at the Old Corner Bookstore a little over a year ago, we took advantage of the opportunity to reacquaint ourselves with the site, which had been HBI’s headquarters from its founding in...
01 Jul Business as usual at the Old Corner Bookstore
Brueggers Bagels and the restaurant Dig (formerly Dig Inn), are re-opening at the historic Old Corner Bookstore complex after 15 months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Historic Boston Inc. (HBI) also resumed full office operations this month on the 4th floor of 3...