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APPENDIX B: Key Historic Preservation Organizations in
Boston
BLC: The
Boston Landmarks Commission
The City's preservation agency identifies historic buildings and places.
Protects them through Landmark and district designations. Administers National Register
program for Boston. Manages design review in seven local historic districts. Reviews
development projects which affect historic resources. Administers demolition delay.
Provides public information. Established in 1975. City Hall Room 805, 02201; 617-635-3850
BMS: Boston
Main Streets
This initiative of the City and the National Trust for Historic Preservation
revitalizes neighborhood commercial districts through locally established Main Street
organizations. Provides merchant groups and community residents with tools and information
necessary for their historic community centers to compete in today's marketplace.
Established in 1995. Contact: Emily Haber, 26 Court Street, 02108; 617-635-0293; www.ci.boston.ma.us/mainstreets
BPA: Boston
Preservation Alliance
Serves over 50 member organizations by orchestrating advocacy for historic
preservation in Boston. Publishes the AllianceLetter, presents annual awards, and
offers educational programs to expand and sustain a constituency for local historic
preservation activities and needs. Established in 1978. Contact: Albert Rex, 45 School
Street, 02108; 617-367-2458; www.bostonpreservation.org
BSA: Boston
Society of Architects (Historic Resources Committee)
A group of architects and other preservation professionals who meet monthly to
share information about cutting edge preservation issues. Contact: Henry Moss;
617-492-8400; www.architects.org
HBI: Historic
Boston Incorporated
Puts people and resources together to preserve endangered, but pivotal historic
buildings to encourage the economic, social, and cultural well-being of Boston
neighborhoods. Raises money, lends money, develops historic real estate, awards grants,
provides technical assistance, and holds easements. Established in 1960. Contact: Stanley
M. Smith, 3 School Street, 02108; 617-227-4679; www.historicboston.org
HMI: Historic
Massachusetts, Inc.
Assists private and public entities that seek to preserve significant historic,
scenic and archeological sites throughout the Commonwealth. Holds educational conferences
on critical preservation issues. Leads initiatives to educate state legislators about
historic preservation. Makes strategic investments to revitalize communities. Established
in 1985. Contact: Margaret Dyson, 45 School Street, 02108; 617-723-3383
HNF: Historic
Neighborhoods Foundation
Raises awareness of Boston's social and architectural history through programs
for students in Boston public schools, adult tours, and professional seminars. Established
in 1977. Contact: Nina Meyer, 99 Bedford Street, 02111; 617-426-1885
MHC:
Massachusetts Historical Commission
Identifies, evaluates, and protects historic buildings, sites, landscapes, as
well as archaeological resources of the state. Administers the National Register program
and the historic rehabilitation tax credit program. Reviews impacts of federal or state
funded, licensed, or permitted undertakings on historic resources. Administers
non-construction survey and planning grants as well as Massachusetts Preservation Projects
Fund grants to municipalities and non-profit organizations for pre-development,
acquisition, and construction. Established in 1963. Contact: Judith B. McDonough, 220
Morrissey Boulevard, 02125; 617-727-8470; www.state.ma.us/sec/mhc
NTHP: National
Trust for Historic Preservation
Provides expertise in preservation issues, non-profit development and
management, preservation law and real estate development. Supports preservation
legislation at the local, state and federal levels and works to foster positive
relationships between preservationists, government officials and others. Four grant and
loan programs are available for preservation initiatives. Northeast Office established in
1975. Contact: Wendy Nicholas, 7 Faneuil Hall Marketplace, 4th Floor, 02109; 617-523-0885;
www.nationaltrust.org
SAH: Society
of Architectural Historians
Provides an international forum for those interested in architecture and its
related arts, to encourage scholarly research in the field, and to promote the
preservation of significant architectural monuments throughout the world. The New England
Chapter focuses on issues of local and regional significance. Sponsors lectures on
architecture. Established in 1940. Contact: Gail Fenske; 781-729-0618; www.sah.org
SPNEA: Society
for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Preserves and makes available by appointment growing library and archival
resources. Maintains old house resource line to assist with basic preservation and
building conservation questions. Offers public programs, holds easements on over 60
privately owned historic buildings, and operates 35 historic house museums throughout New
England. Established in 1910. Contact: Jane C. Nylander, 141 Cambridge Street, 02114;
617-227-3956; www.spnea.org
TBS: The
Bostonian Society
Operates a museum of the City's history in the Old State House. Maintains a
research library at 15 State Street which features a collection of books, photographs,
prints and manuscripts. Installs permanent plaques identifying important historic sites.
Runs Lowell Lecture Series, educational programs. Established in 1881. Contact: Anne D.
Emerson, 206 Washington Street, 02109; 617-720-1713; www.bostonhistory.org