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Annual Meeting Of Members:

A City, Segregated By Design.

The Presentation Is Now Online.

Your Guide to

Preservation Month

Preservation Priorities

Our Letter to Mayor Wu

protecting places. promoting vibrancy. preserving character.

A nonprofit organization that protects and improves the quality of Boston’s architectural heritage. Through advocacy and education, we bring people and organizations together to influence the future of Boston’s historic buildings, landscapes, and communities.

What we're doing

2021 award winner

The History Project–Stonewall…

Citywide

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2021 award winner

Boston's Oldest Buildings…

Citywide

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Boston Harbor Islands

Monitoring

The 34 islands that make up the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area are home to beautiful nature and historic sites.

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NEWS & EVENTS

07 Jun, 2022

EVENT: Preser-GAY-tion Chatter

Get Your Tickets What: PreserGAYtion Chatter…

11 May, 2022

My Boston Home: The Ayer Mansion

All Images by Matthew Dickey In our second…

What we've done

2009 award winner

Mattapan Heights, Phase III,…

Mattapan

Completed

Planned and built by owners Trinity Financial, Inc., architectural firm Bergmeyer Associates,…

2020 award winner

Dillaway-Thomas House

Roxbury

Federal Style

National Register Historic District

Completed

“The quality of our architectural heritage, its pedestrian scale—we have some of the greatest streets in this nation.”

— Howard Elkus —

“We all want progress in Eastie, but we do want to see history preserved.”

— Meg Grady, East Boston resident —

“There’s a reason why this bridge is still here. It means something to Bostonians.”

— Greg Galer —

Thank you to all our corporate members, including: