About Us
Historic Boston Incorporated is a non-profit preservation and real estate organization that rehabilitates historic and culturally significant properties in Boston’s neighborhoods so they are a useable part of the city’s present and future.
HBI works with local partners to identify and invest in historic buildings and cultural resources whose re-use will catalyze neighborhood renewal. HBI acquires and redevelops historic structures and provides technical expertise, planning services and financing for rehabilitation projects.
HBI projects demonstrate that preserving historic properties is economically viable and that they can be useable and functioning assets in a community.
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.
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