With funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Mystic River Watershed Association has begun a three-year air quality study: Community-led Improvement of Air Quality and Health in the Lower Mystic (CLEANAIR). The CLEANAIR project aims to monitor air quality at community-identified locations in Charlestown, East Boston, Everett, and Malden; some of the most burdened communities […]
The Apollos Field House is historically and architecturally significant as one of the oldest surviving dwellings in the Union/Washington Streets section of Charlestown. The Apollos Field House predates many of the extant nineteenth-century homes on the surrounding streets. The home serves as an illustration of the process by which Charlestown was rebuilt, following its destruction […]
Join the Charlestown Preservation Society and the Friends of the Charlestown Library in welcoming author, Mark Pasnik, for a discussion of his book Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston. On June 6, Mark will lead a lively discussion at the Charlestown Branch of the Boston Public Library celebrating the iconic concrete structures that shape […]
Historic Preservation is a conversation with our past about our future. It provides us with opportunities to ask, “What is important in our history?” and “What parts of our past should we preserve for the future?” As Boston’s oldest neighborhood, Charlestown’s history is rich, and historic preservation helps tell these stories. Sometimes historic preservation […]