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26 Sep Greenhouse at Fowler Clark Epstein Farm Takes Shape
Built between 1786 and 1806, the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm remains among the earliest intact, vernacular examples of an agricultural property in the Commonwealth’s cities. The original farmhouse is located on land that was once part of a large Dorchester estate encompassing over 330 acres....
16 Aug People in Preservation: Friday Farm Stands at the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm
Built between 1786 and 1806, the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm remains among the earliest intact, vernacular examples of an agricultural property in the Commonwealth’s cities. The original farmhouse is located on land that was once part of a large Dorchester estate encompassing over 330 acres....
19 Jul A Farm Grows in Mattapan: the Urban Farming Institute at Fowler Clark Epstein Farm
From Edible Magazine, Shelby Larsson explores the Fowler Clark Farm at the height of the 2019 summer growing and harvest season. Read the article for the latest updates on the Urban Farming Institute’s work on the historic farm site. Photos by Adam DeTour On a...
28 Jun HBI Advisors Tour Fowler Clark Epstein Farm and Review Plans for 50 Cedar Street
Click here to see more photos from the event The Fowler Clark Epstein Farm in Mattapan and St. James African Orthodox Church in Roxbury were the focus of HBI’s Council of Advisors’ Spring Gathering this year. Forty-two advisors, board members, and HBI friends attended a...
14 Jun History Etched in Glass at the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm
Jorge Epstein and his wife Ida bought the Fowler Clark farm in Mattapan in 1941 and lived there for 57 years until Jorge’s death in 1998. In the 1940s, Jorge was a jeweler and operated a retail business in downtown Boston, but he later operated...
24 Jan Fowler Clark Epstein Farm Featured in Preservation Magazine
If you subscribe to Preservation, the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, you might be as excited as we are here at Historic Boston to find a profile piece on our project at the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm in the magazine’s new winter...
29 Jun Fowler Clark Epstein Farm is Open!
Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Historic Boston Inc. and its three partners, Urban Farming Institute, Trust for Public Land and North Bennet Street School, celebrated the opening of a 21stcentury urban farm, residence, and teaching center at the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm on June 25thwith...