The Shattuck Emerald Necklace Visitor Center

The Shattuck Emerald Necklace Visitor Center is cared for by the Emerald Necklace Conservancy

• A First Anniversary
• Shattuck Visitor Center Now Open!
• "Building To Welcome Visitors to Emerald Necklace" (Boston Globe)
• Gatehouse Groundbreaking
• Map

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A First Anniversary

The past year brought the Emerald Necklace Conservancy one of the biggest milestones in its 14 year history – the opening of a permanent visitor center located at 125 The Fenway. The Center welcomed more than 3,000 visitors in its first year hailing from 30 states and nearly that many countries across the globe. Continue reading...

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Shattuck Visitor Center Now Open!

Monday through Friday: 9:00am - 5:00pm

Stop by for a free tour on Tuesdays or Sundays! Click here for more info.

The new Emerald Necklace Visitor and Volunteer center is now ready to welcome all! The restoration of the historic H. H. Richardson building in the Back Bay Fens establishes a visitor center and permanent home for the Emerald Necklace Conservancy. Click here to read more.

Since breaking ground on September 21st, the Gatehouse has gotten a quite a face-lift. See pictures of construction and remodeling here.

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Building to Welcome Visitors to Emerald Necklace

By Peter Schworm, Boston Globe September 22, 2010

For the legions who wind their way through the Back Bay Fens, the low-slung stone building has long been a charming curiosity, a graceful structure with no apparent purpose beyond its weathered beauty. Built in 1883 to regulate water flow in the marshy area, the cottage-like gatehouse on the edge of the park has stood vacant for years, a landmark from another time.

Now the Old Stony Brook Gatehouse, designed by renowned 19th-century architect H.H. Richardson, will be reborn as a gateway to the Emerald Necklace, the ribbon of parks that stretches from the Boston Common to Franklin Park. Continue reading full article here>>

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Emerald Necklace Conservancy Groundbreaking at Stony Brook Gatehouse

September 21 at 10:30 am

Restoration of historic H. H. Richardson building in the Fens establishes a visitor center and permanent home for the Emerald Necklace Conservancy.

Boston, MA –September 16, 2010–The Emerald Necklace Conservancy announces the groundbreaking ceremony for the Emerald Necklace Visitor and Volunteer Center will be held September 21st, 2010 at 10:30 am. Special guests include Mayor Thomas M. Menino; Antonia M. Pollak, Commissioner of Boston Parks and Recreation; Rick Sullivan, Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Recreation; Ann Beha, project architect; and Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

"It's exciting that through this partnership we will activate this beautiful portion of the Emerald Necklace. The Emerald Necklace Conservancy and the City of Boston are working together to make this the best park system in America," said Mayor Thomas M. Menino.

“A once-forgotten architectural gem will sparkle again,” said Julie Crockford, Conservancy President, “when the historic Stony Brook Gatehouse in the Back Bay Fens opens its doors as the Emerald Necklace Visitor and Volunteer Center and new home of the Conservancy later this fall.”

Under the direction of project architect, Ann Beha Architects, the new Visitor and Volunteer Center is designed to be a gateway to the Emerald Necklace...

Click here to read more>>

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Map

We wish to acknowledge the contributions that each of the firms consulting on the Gatehouse has made to this project. We are grateful for their tremendous expertise and generosity.

-Development Consultant: GLC Development Resources, LLC
-Architect: Ann Beha Architects
-MEP Engineer: Architectural Engineers, Inc.
-Cost Estimating: Daedalus Projects
-Permitting Counsel: Goulston & Storrs
-Telecommunications and Data: CCR Pyramid
-Surveyor: Harry R. Feldman
-Landscape Architect: Halvorson Design Partnership, Inc.
-Civil Engineer: Nitsch Engineering
-Sustainability: The Green Roundtable
-Acquisition Counsel: Krokidas & Blustein, LLP
-Construction Management: Shawmut Design and Construction