preservation « Historic Hyde Square

Save(d) the Rectory!

Have you been by the Blessed Sacrament Campus recently and seen the newly restored Rectory?

Thanks to a tremendous efforts by neighborhood residents, the Boston Landmarks Commission agreed that preserving the Rectory building was important in the site’s redevelopment.

As a result, the site developers found an acceptable way to restore the building’s historic exterior while updating [...]

Stony Brook Cohousing to redevelop Blessed Sacrament Church

Stony Brook Cohousing, a local group formed in 2006 to create an “intentional community” in Jamaica Plain, has entered into a deal to take on the redevelopment of the long-vacant Blessed Sacrament Church. The group is planning to purchase the church from the JPNDC and New Atlantic, the original partnership that formed to redevelop the [...]