James W. “Jim” Borden, a treasure in the Beacon Hill neighborhood, died on Monday, November 1. Born on June 8, 1954 in Fayetteville, NC, he was 67 and lived on Mount Vernon Street. Jim seemingly knew most residents of Beacon…
Author: Karen Cord Taylor
Book Review: Ernest Cataldo’s “A Life on Beacon Hill”
What’s it like choosing to renovate a home and raise a family in the middle of the city in the last half of the 20th century when the trend among lesser imaginations is to hightail it out to some suburb?…
Neighbors Go for Lighting at Temple Street Park
It’s a hole in the wall. Or maybe it is a vest pocket park. A mini-park? Perhaps it is simply an unlikely open space in a line of rowhouses that almost didn’t happen. Technically, it now belongs to the city.…
Travel at Home with Greatamericantreasures.org
By Katherine Bergholtz The William Hickling Prescott House Museum at 55 Beacon St. is part of a remarkable collection of more than 60 historical properties known as “Great American Treasures” which are featured this month in a new website of…
Downtown View:A Different Take
Things happen. A story gets told. It gets hardened by conventional wisdom. But you can look at it in a different way. City boosters are ga-ga over GE. We’ve been told this company is relocating because of Boston’s robust, synergistic…
Downtown View:Getting Through
Ah, winter. This is the north, you know. It’s cold and it snows. Some of us like it. A lot of us don’t. I’m in the like-it category—the coziness, a fire in my fireplace and me with a good book,…
Downtown View:Sestercentennial
It is now 2016, only 10 years until America’s 250th birthday. So are we going to celebrate or what? It’s not only the Declaration of Independence. The 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre takes place in 2020. The Boston Tea…
Downtown View:Up to the Job
January is a good time to visit the World Trade Center site in New York City. The crowds are smaller than in July. El Niño makes it warm enough for the water to cascade freely over the edges of the…
Beacon Hill Hotel and Bistro Joins Saunders Family
Peter and Cecilia Rait, owners of the Beacon Hill Hotel and Bistro, are scheduled to sell the Charles Street business and building to the Saunders Hotel Group at noon today, December 22. The decision to sell came partly from the…
Downtown View:North Station Transportation Troubles
Consider North Station. The Boston Redevelopment Authority has defined its area as extending from the river to New Sudbury Street and from Cambridge Street to North Washington Street. Parts of that area, especially around the terminal itself, used to offer…