{"id":356,"date":"2009-07-17T00:56:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T04:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2016-09-17T00:49:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T04:49:03","slug":"the-lyman-estate-1793","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Lyman Estate (1793)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Lyman-Estate.jpg\" alt=\"Lyman Estate\" title=\"Lyman Estate\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Lyman-Estate.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Lyman-Estate-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lyman_Estate\">Lyman Estate<\/a>, formerly known as &#8220;The Vale,&#8221; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waltham-community.org\/Lyman.html\">a country estate in Waltham<\/a>, originally established in 1793 by Boston merchant Theodore Lyman.  The Estate&#8217;s grand Federal-style <a href=\"http:\/\/melissaandmark.com\/Lyman_Estate\/Lyman_Estate.shtml\">mansion<\/a> was completed in 1798 and was designed by the Salem architect, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salemweb.com\/tales\/mcintire.shtml\">Samuel McIntire<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faeskorn.com\/lyman.htm\">The mansion<\/a> remained in the Lyman family as a summer home for the next century-and-a-half.  Lydia Lyman Paine, daughter of nineteenth century owner George Lyman, married Robert Treat Paine, who built <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=347\">Stonehurst<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getupngoadventures.com\/html\/lyman_estate.html\">a neighboring estate<\/a>.  The Lyman family added an upper story to their house in 1882.  The estate, now owned by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicnewengland.org\/\">Historic New England<\/a>, is known for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historicnewengland.org\/visit\/homes\/lyman_estate_greenhouses.htm\">its greenhouses<\/a> (the earliest of which dates to 1800), which are <a href=\"http:\/\/blogginghouseplants.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/lyman-estate-greenhouses.html\">open to the public<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lyman Estate, formerly known as &#8220;The Vale,&#8221; is a country estate in Waltham, originally established in 1793 by Boston merchant Theodore Lyman. The Estate&#8217;s grand Federal-style mansion was completed in 1798 and was designed by the Salem architect, Samuel McIntire. The mansion remained in the Lyman family as a summer home for the next century-and-a-half. Lydia Lyman Paine, daughter of nineteenth century owner George Lyman, married Robert Treat Paine, who built Stonehurst on a neighboring estate. The Lyman family added an upper story to their house in 1882. The estate, now owned by Historic New England, is known for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,8,128],"tags":[18,96,102],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-houses","category-waltham","tag-museum","tag-samuel-mcintire","tag-spnea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7470,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/7470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}