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Strengthening Boston's Neighborhoods through Historic Preservation
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Joined March 2009
Your 2025 progress update on the Old Corner Bookstore😁🫶 https://t.co/DRsXPokbNS
#oldcornerbookstore #boston #history
historicboston.org
This giving season, our colleagues and collaborators at Feldman Geospatial gifted Historic Boston Inc. with the chance to share our story in a brand new way! We want to extend our sincere gratitude...
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Happy #officeartifactfriday! Today we give you HBI's collection of #photos of the Orange Line taken by a mystery Historic Boston employee in the 1970s! The photographer had quite the eye with these captivating views from the Orange Line 📸 📸 @MBTA #orangeline #boston
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Support small businesses with Historic Boston Inc. - HBI and American Express on Small Business Saturday November 29! ~American Express is recognizing HBI and our support of small businesses in 2025~ Small Business Saturday started in 2010 by American Express to support small
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From now until mid-January the Boston Athenaeum and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will be celebrating the life and works of Allan Rohan Crite— a Boston artist known for the way he glorified the everyday lives of Boston's Black communities. Some of Crite's work was
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Happy #officeartifactfriday (and Happy Halloween!!) The latest artifact to grace HBI’s office happens to be wrapped right around the outside of the Old Corner Bookstore Complex– a spectacular interpretive scrim that not only conceals scaffolding, but shares over 300 years of site
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Happy #OfficeArtifactFriday!! To celebrate the start of our window restoration #project on the 1718 Old Corner Bookstore (OCB) Complex, this week’s #artifact is a 2024 3D model of the OCB made by our friends #massdesigngroup! Scaffolding is going up this week, but keep an eye
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On a recent visit to Roxbury's #TheShirleyEustisHouse, we discovered that our own Tony Lopes, HBI’s Director of Real Estate Development, has a personal #history with the house. Here, Tony reflects on that history and how his work at HBI helps Roxbury’s untold stories come to
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Happy #officeartifactfriday!📚 Today, we give you our 1st edition True Stories from History and Biography by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published out of the #oldcornerbookstore under Ticknor, Reed, and Fields in 1851! And while the complex no longer houses booksellers, today's OCB
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Happy #OfficeArtifactFriday! Today we’re showcasing a wood frame that has sat in HBI’s offices since our 2014 rehabilitation of the 1834 Alvah Kittredge House in #Roxbury. Dug out from the historic home’s cupola, this frame could have been sourced from Alvah Kittredge’s 19th c.
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Many, many thanks to David Hacin FAIA for being our latest Partner in Preservation! https://t.co/IyP02ZyAeE
#preservation #history #partnership
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Amazing highlight of the vital and inspiring work @ufiboston continues to do at Fowler Clark Epstein Farm: https://t.co/1b1cJp7LsF Thank you @McNeeleyCassidy for covering our Mattapan preservation partners! #urbanfarms #youthfarming #FowlerClarkEpsteinFarm
#farming
dotnews.com
For ten young people from Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury, the summer of 2025 was a time when words like urban agriculture and food justice turned into reality with their participation in the Urban...
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Check out #historic #sustainable updates coming to the Old Corner Bookstore!! https://t.co/G75CUCAWzY
#FreedomTrail #DowntownBostonAlliance #CityofBoston #RevolutionarySpaces #PreservationMassachusetts #BostonPreservationAlliance #MassachusettsHistoricalSociety
historicboston.org
Here, our Senior Project Manager, Lisa Lewis, provides some insight into the process of identifying new windows for the Old Corner Bookstore complex that would be both historically appropriate and...
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Thank you so much @Chris_Tanaka for your wonderful coverage of Upham's Corner Comfort Kitchen on WBZ!😊👏👏 Watch the story of this 1912 Comfort Station's transformation here: https://t.co/w7W0BADEss
cbsnews.com
The Comfort Kitchen restaurant in Dorchester was once a streetcar comfort station more than 100 years ago.
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Big thank you to Michael Feldman for being our first participant in HBI's 2025 Partners in Preservation blog series! Read what #preservation means to him and become one of our Partners today: https://t.co/SQLaytF0IL
#partnersinpreservation
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Happy International Cat Day😸🐈 Can’t think of a better day to also celebrate the recent designation of the 1804 Anna Harris Smith House in Dorchester as a Boston Landmark! The house was the lifelong home of Anna Harris Smith, the founder of the Animal Rescue League of Boston
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Welcoming Doc Kemper to HBI and Boston's Historic Preservation community with all of our partners. Thank you to our Boston leaders for supporting HBI! Special thanks to #FeldmanGeospatial #longliveroxbury, and #BonMeFoods for hosting us! #preserveBOS👋🎉🏦
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READ ALL ABOUT IT! 📰 HBI's Mattapan partner-in-preservation @ufiboston was featured in the @BostonGlobe(thank you @JohnTlumacki for your coverage) support the next generation in agriculture 🔗 https://t.co/1TZsJKodWZ
@HistoricBoston -HBI 🔗 #Mattapan @tpl_org
@loukas81944652
bostonglobe.com
The historic Fowler Clark Epstein Farm in Mattapan sits on just one and a half acres and is packed with rows of organically grown vegetables and herbs.
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We are excited to announce that HBI has appointed Dr. Rebecca Kemper as our next Executive Director! With over a decade of non-profit leadership experience, get to know Dr. Kemper with a brief Q&A here: https://t.co/xRDKObym0E
historicboston.org
We are thrilled to announce that Historic Boston Incorporated has appointed Dr. Rebecca F. Kemper as its next Executive Director. Dr. Kemper has over a decade of nonprofit leadership experience and...
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The City's Archaeology Program has been hosting a pop-up in the Old Corner complex to demonstrate how they process field fresh artifacts from a dig in Charlestown. Open on Wednesdays 9 AM - 4 PM, catch the final day of their exhibit Wednesday June 18th! https://t.co/PnkKiwS5vq
historicboston.org
The City of Boston’s Archaeology Program has been hosting a pop up at the Old Corner Bookstore complex for the past month. The temporary exhibit demonstrates how the lab processes “field fresh”...
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