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The Speedway, the BPA, and the Importance of Preservation Partnerships

Image credit: Boston Preservation Alliance The built environment stands on a foundation of built relationships. For preservationists, whose projects live or die depending on successful advocacy, this idea carries...

From The Boston Globe – “Setting the Record Straight on the Building of Faneuil Hall Marketplace”

Re "Kevin White’s vision for Faneuil Hall is now Marty Walsh’s problem” (Opinion, Sept. 17), as with all preceding articles that I have read in the Globe regarding the...

Is There Room for Equity on the Mass. Pike?

A satellite view of the area covered by the Allston Multimodal Project. At center from the bottom, the Boston-Worcester Commuter Rail line, Beacon Park Yard, the MassPike with entrance...

The Speedway Progress Update: July 2020

The courtyard and Building F under construction. Photo by Ella Rinaldo. Where to begin? When we posted our first Speedway progress update in early March, we never imagined a pandemic...

The Speedway Progress Update: June 2020

The courtyard and Building F under construction. Photo by Ella Rinaldo. Where to begin? When we posted our first Speedway progress update in early March, we never imagined a...

Speedway Produce Program Awarded Harvard Grant

Architectural Heritage Foundation’s COVID-19 relief efforts in Allston-Brighton got a big boost last month from Harvard University. On May 27, the school named twenty-seven local nonprofits – among them...

When historic sites are vandalized, what does that say about the society that created them?

Backside of the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial with graffiti, June 1, 2020. Photo credit: Friends of the Public Garden. When the sun rose above Boston on June 1, illuminating...

AHF Stands with Black Lives Matter

Architectural Heritage Foundation joins the calls for racial justice and equity that have resounded in American cities for hundreds of years, and most recently following the murder of George...