In early fall, the hammers stopped swinging and the drills stopped spinning on a five-story residential building at 3368 ...

Do we have a professional igloo builder in Jamaica Plain? Check out this amazing igloo that two siblings made at the Johnson Playground on Green Street. The Boston Public Health Commission is warning ...

A developer has proposed building a new 4-story, mixed use building with 12 units and one commercial space for a Centre Street site that was last operated by a gas station. 12-unit building proposed ...

Diversity Consignment offers apparel for all sorts of styles. Diversity Consignment at 713 Centre St. After falling in love with the artist centric community of Jamaica Plains, owner Ian Drake opened ...

Each summer, participants in the Isabella Welles Hunnewell Internship Program at the Arnold Arboretum complete a group project in the landscape as the culmination of their training in public garden ...

Jamaica Plain, where you’re lucky to get a two-bedroom apartment for under $2,500, was once a neighborhood where homes were burned for insurance money. It was a neighborhood our state was ready to ...

Six Jamaica Plain restaurants were among 37 new liquor licenses that the city’s Licensing Board approved including a Dominican restaurant, a wine bar, and a fried chicken spot. There is at least one ...

« First They Came for the Immigrants…This Time, JP Speaks Out The Seltzer Factory: Film Screening and Writing Workshop with Filmmaker Paloma Valenzuela » « First They Came for the Immigrants…This Time ...

The historical importance of the ongoing biodiversity exploration and plant conservation work of the North America-China Plant Exploration Consortium (NACPEC) is coming into focus through a major ...

The demolition of Franklin Park’s White Stadium is scheduled to begin this week, but two city councilors who want to halt the project, are leading a Boston City Council meeting on Wednesday. Rendering ...

One of Jamaica Plain’s most beloved restaurants and delicious breakfast spots, Sorella’s, will serve up its last batch of French toast at the end of the month. After 36 years in business in Hyde ...

This article is from the Jamaica Plain Historical Society’s website, and has been republished here with permission from JPHS. It is based on a slide show presented by Susan Steele at the Loring ...