North End | Downtown Small Infill Projects
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Couple of miscellaneous projects (from today):
149 Salem Street / 71 Prince Street (9 units + retail)
This project involved the demolition of one of the last surviving 18th-century buildings in the North End. The exterior of the old property had been reclad in 1968, but the wooden-framed interior had originally been built in ca. 1795-1806. It certainly wasn't architecturally significant but it's still a bit of a bummer to see it go. Based on this post, the tear-down occurred around April. The plans from the new development are from 2019, unfortunately wasn't able to find anything more recent.
Before demolition:
New building plans:
204 Hanover Street (new restaurant, using "North End Lobster Company" as a working name)
43 Stillman Street (2 units - complete)
Last update on this one was by BeeLine in the post immediately above.
149 Salem Street / 71 Prince Street (9 units + retail)
This project involved the demolition of one of the last surviving 18th-century buildings in the North End. The exterior of the old property had been reclad in 1968, but the wooden-framed interior had originally been built in ca. 1795-1806. It certainly wasn't architecturally significant but it's still a bit of a bummer to see it go. Based on this post, the tear-down occurred around April. The plans from the new development are from 2019, unfortunately wasn't able to find anything more recent.
Before demolition:
New building plans:
204 Hanover Street (new restaurant, using "North End Lobster Company" as a working name)
43 Stillman Street (2 units - complete)
Last update on this one was by BeeLine in the post immediately above.
Couple of miscellaneous projects (from today):
149 Salem Street / 71 Prince Street (9 units + retail)
This project involved the demolition of one of the last surviving 18th-century buildings in the North End. The exterior of the old property had been reclad in 1968, but the wooden-framed interior had originally been built in ca. 1795-1806. It certainly wasn't architecturally significant but it's still a bit of a bummer to see it go. Based on this post, the tear-down occurred around April. The plans from the new development are from 2019, unfortunately wasn't able to find anything more recent.
Before demolition:
New building plans:
204 Hanover Street (new restaurant, using "North End Lobster Company" as a working name)
43 Stillman Street (2 units - complete)
Last update on this one was by BeeLine in the post immediately above.
That 43 Stillman Street garage door entrance placement is ....... interesting. I wonder how many fender benders/horn beeping/arguments occur there each month.
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173 Endicott Street, North End from Saint Anthony’s Feast this weekend. Built in 2022, replaced a surface lot. The street level is terrible - just in-building parking - but the massing works well.
Wow that's ugly. This belongs in Southie not in the North End...where's the brick???
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Seriously. If you look around the baltimore/washington dc/northern va area its like they build every single townhouse or condo in brick, and it looks great. A random plain brick box townhouse will always look better than that goofy crap above.
Even random ass townhouses out in the dc suburbs get georgian or colonial features. Boston is loved for its brick but for whatever reason we look much more toward our triple decker past as inspiration for new housing developments than any other. Idk why that is.
Heres a brand new part of alexandria va. They built literal hundreds of these all over the place, they made entire new neighborhoods.
A different but brand new neighborhood
Now in dc
Why cant boston build some new neighborhoods like this? The parts of boston that look like this are the most popular parts that everybody loves. Same with brooklyn…etc. Ppl love living in places that look like this, idk why were not building more of them. Somehow they can build entire neighborhoods like this in the mid atlantic but we hardly build even any individual buildings in this style today. Seems kinda crazy.
Even random ass townhouses out in the dc suburbs get georgian or colonial features. Boston is loved for its brick but for whatever reason we look much more toward our triple decker past as inspiration for new housing developments than any other. Idk why that is.
Heres a brand new part of alexandria va. They built literal hundreds of these all over the place, they made entire new neighborhoods.
A different but brand new neighborhood
Now in dc
Why cant boston build some new neighborhoods like this? The parts of boston that look like this are the most popular parts that everybody loves. Same with brooklyn…etc. Ppl love living in places that look like this, idk why were not building more of them. Somehow they can build entire neighborhoods like this in the mid atlantic but we hardly build even any individual buildings in this style today. Seems kinda crazy.
Those townhouses are zoning-noncompliant in Boston's rowhouse n'hoods let alone less dense ones. The economics of townhouses work great for building at scale if they're by right is my understanding.
We do see occasional infill that looks like this in the South End where it's small apt buildings that look like megarowhouses.