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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...

On August 24th, the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) hosted a virtual public meeting to summarize its final final draft of PLAN: Boston, an ambitious new framework for the “growth, enhancement, and preservation” in Downtown Boston. The BPDA’s work on a downtown plan that...

HBI’s Director of Real Estate Development, Tony Lopes, researched the Old Corner Bookstore’s most iconic tenant of the 20th c. Introduction In the heart of Boston’s Downtown Crossing, nestled at the corner of Washington and School Streets, stands a time-honored structure that has witnessed the...

Hundreds of people visit the retail establishments in the Old Corner Bookstore complex every day, but the lesser known story is that dozens also visit the upper floors of our building for the four businesses that operate there. Enter at 3 School Street, and you...

Historic Boston’s year-end 2022 was a great success, thanks to you!  We received so many thoughtful and generous contributions that will be devoted to HBI’s preservation projects throughout the city’s neighborhoods, and will help us to be prepared to act quickly when HBI’s services are...

Over the next two months, Chris Impellizeri of West Roxbury will be juggling three summer internship projects that will help HBI predict the future. Chris is researching models for shared use of former historic church buildings for HBI’s project at St. James African Orthodox Church;...

Unlike the historic neighborhoods of  Beacon Hill, the South End and Bay Village, the rich historic resources of Roxbury’s Highland Park are not protected for preservation. However, that could change as the neighborhood and the City of Boston’s Landmarks Commission conclude a 60-day public comment...