{"id":347,"date":"2009-07-16T05:17:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T05:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=347"},"modified":"2012-12-30T12:50:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T17:50:42","slug":"stonehurst-robert-treat-paine-estate-1886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Stonehurst, the Robert Treat Paine Estate (1886)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stonehurst\"<\/center><\/p>\n

Stonehurst<\/a> was the country house of Robert Treat Paine, Jr.<\/a>, a lawyer, housing reformer<\/a> and great grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence<\/a>. Located in Waltham, the earliest part of the house was a Second Empire building, designed by Gridley James Fox Bryant<\/a> and constructed in 1866 for Paine and his wife, Lydia Lyman Paine<\/a>. This house was moved to a new site atop a ridge and a large addition<\/a> in the Shingle style was designed by the architect H.H. Richardson<\/a>. Begun in 1884, the project was almost complete when Richardson died in 1886. In collaboration with Richardson was the great landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted<\/a>. The organic relationship of the completed house<\/a> and the landscape<\/a> is a notable feature of what is considered to be an architectural masterpiece<\/a>. The estate<\/a> was given to the City of Waltham and is open to the public<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stonehurst was the country house of Robert Treat Paine, Jr., a lawyer, housing reformer and great grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Located in Waltham, the earliest part of the house was a Second Empire building, designed by Gridley James Fox Bryant and constructed in 1866 for Paine and his wife, Lydia Lyman Paine. This house was moved to a new site atop a ridge and a large addition in the Shingle style was designed by the architect H.H. Richardson. Begun in 1884, the project was almost complete when Richardson died in 1886. In collaboration with Richardson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,55,56,182,32,128],"tags":[77,105,18,132],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houses","category-richardsonian-romanesque","category-second-empire","category-shingle-style","category-victorian-eclectic","category-waltham","tag-hh-richardson","tag-mansard","tag-museum","tag-shingle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}