About Us

Board of Directors and Council of Advisors

Board of Directors

Matthew J. Kiefer, President
Director, Goulston & Storrs

Chrystal Kornegay, Vice President
Chief Executive Officer, Urban Edge

W. Tod McGrath, Treasurer
President, advisoRE, LLC

Jay Wickersham, Clerk
Partner, Noble & Wickersham LLP

Paul F. McDonough, Jr., President Emeritus
Attorney, Goulston & Storrs

Emily H. Axelrod
Former Director, Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence

Celia Grant
Director Marketing & Creative, Associated Industries of Massachusetts

Alex Krieger
Principal, Chan Krieger Sieniewicz

Drew Leff
Principal, GLC Development Resources LLC

Kathleen MacNeil
Millenium Partners Boston

Henry Moss
Principal, Bruner/Cott & Associates, Inc

Carolyn M. Osteen
Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP

Susan Silberberg-Robinson
Lecturer, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

 

HBI Council of Advisors

Carolyn Osteen (Chair)
Historic Boston Board of Directors

Nancy R. Coolidge
International Tourism

John Dalzell
Senior Architect
Boston Redevelopment Authority

Andrea M. Gilmore
Regional Director, Building
Conservation Associates, Inc.

Charles T. Grigsby
Senior Vice President, Mass
Capital Resource Company

Theodore C. Landsmark
President, Boston Architectural
College

Edward P. Lawrence
Retired Partner,
Ropes and Gray LLP

David P. Rockwell
Director of Lending,
Massachusetts Housing
Partnership

Lynne M. Spencer
Principal, Menders, Torrey
and Spencer, Inc.

Ranne P. Warner
President, Blackstone Exchange


State Representative Byron Rushing tells the story of the Owen Nawn Factory (1870) in Roxbury's Dudley Square to HBI's Board of Directors.

 

Historic Boston's Casebooks
Historic Boston's 1999 Preservation Revolving Fund Casebook identified 40 properties in Boston whose future was uncertain and recommended strategies for their preservation that could guide action by HBI as well as others. While many have been addressed, several remain seriously threatened.
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Historic Boston's Religious Properties
Preservation: A Boston Casebook, published in 1991, deals specifically with buildings built for worship. It targets twenty-nine religious properties that are significant to the architectural and social history of the City of Boston. At the time of publication, each of the twenty-nine properties had uncertain futures.
Full document

 

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