Building 107 at the Charlestown Navy Yard Becomes Boston's Park Headquarters

Building 107 at its groundbreaking, July 2024. NPS / C. Gould.

The Charlestown Navy Yard, on Boston's Freedom Trail, draws more than 1.5 million visitors a year and is a key operations base for National Parks of Boston staff. With Great American Outdoors Act funding, the park is rehabilitating Building 107, a former public works building, and its surroundings.

The project

Dates and costs are estimates and may change.

Why

• Stop the decay: Building 107 is deteriorating, with other deferred maintenance that would keep growing — and it has been an eyesore for the neighborhood.
• Save money: moving staff into one building fulfills a key part of the park's Master Development Strategy — cutting operating costs, streamlining maintenance, operations and security, and freeing other buildings to lease.
• Better workspace: a flexible, collaborative space built for staff needs, improving coordination across departments, partnerships and the visitor experience.
• History and function: restoring elements of the historic building while adding the sustainability and accessibility a modern facility needs.

More: the Master Development Strategy and reactivation of the Charlestown Navy Yard.

Building 107 in December 2024. NPS.

Progress

• July 17, 2024: groundbreaking, attended by Acting Deputy Secretary of the Interior Laura Daniel-Davis, Superintendent Michael Creasey, city and state officials, and Navy Yard partners.
• Now: park staff are working with contractors on final designs.

Sources

Based on "Building 107 in National Parks of Boston to be Rehabilitated through GAOA Funding," Boston National Historical Park, National Park Service; a work of the United States government in the public domain. An architects' rendering of the finished building is left out.