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Strengthening Boston's Neighborhoods through Historic Preservation

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Your 2025 progress update on the Old Corner Bookstore😁🫶
https://t.co/DRsXPokbNS
#oldcornerbookstore #boston #history

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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 #preservebos

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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 businesses and U.S. Small Business Administration amid the Great Recession

Show some love to one of our favorite local small businesses Comfort Kitchen ~ who once again made Boston Magazine's Best 50 Restaurants in 2025!
#best50restaurants #bestofboston #Boston #SmallBusiness #SmallBizSat

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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 displayed in the sanctuary of St. John St. James' Ionic Hall in Roxbury— one of HBI's current projects!
Learn more here: https://t.co/GYrHKC3LGY
#AllanRohanCrite #boston #arthistory #preservebos #athenaeum #exhibit

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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 history with passersby!
As you walk down School Street this Halloween, stop by the Old Corner to marvel at this innovative bit of historical interpretation.
And remember, you’re never alone when walking through historic Downtown…now those long since past have their eyes on you…👻👻
#HappyHalloween #history #oldcornerbookstore #MAHistory
#FreedomTrail

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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 on downtown Boston’s oldest commercial building for exciting updates in the months to come!

#freedomtrailboston
#OldCornerBookstore #history #Boston #windowrestoration

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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 light: https://t.co/3XR3QjaIMP #roxburyma

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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 tenants make our mission to revitalize Boston's neighborhoods through historic preservation possible😊

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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. furniture company

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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

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Check out #historic #sustainable updates coming to the Old Corner Bookstore!!
https://t.co/aiqvB6C8IM
#FreedomTrail #DowntownBostonAlliance #CityofBoston #RevolutionarySpaces #PreservationMassachusetts #BostonPreservationAlliance #MassachusettsHistoricalSociety #CommonwealthofMassachusetts #1772FOUNDATION #NationalTrustforHistoricPreservation

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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

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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 who was awkwardly only ever photographed with dogs.. #cats #History #preservation #animalrescueleague @AnimalRescueLea @BostonLandmarks

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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

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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

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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