The Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library renovation was awarded the 2024 Harleston Parker Medal at the annual Boston Society for Architecture (BSA) awards gala March 5.. The library branch ...

Rafael Guastavino Sr. (right) stands atop a newly erected arch as the Boston Public Library's McKim Building was being constructed in 1889. (Courtesy of the Boston Public Library) The old wing of ...

The Boston Society of Architecture has announced its finalists for the 2024 Harleston Parker Medal and People’s Choice Award.

BOSTON, Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Boston Society for Architecture (BSA) announces three finalists for the 2024 Harleston Parker Medal. Established in 1921 in memory of Boston ...

And neither the trustees nor the [Boston Public Library] Foundation have had the wit or will to meaningfully increase the library’s endowment.” Sinclair Hitchings, the retired curator of prints, made ...

Step inside the Boston Public Library’s imposing central branch building and visitors are greeted with 17th-century Renaissance Revival architecture, a reading room with a 50-foot-high barrel ...

In 2011, the Boston Public Library (BPL) decided to close two branch libraries in East Boston—home to the nation's first municpally supported branch library, built in 1870—and open a new one midway ...

A group of acclaimed architecture teams is competing for the right to build a new public library branch in Boston’s West End, a neighborhood bereft of communal spaces since the urban renewal ...