Robert Treat Paine (Boston)

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Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (October 28, 1835-August 11, 1910) was a Boston lawyer, philanthropist and social reformer and great-grandson of the signer of the Declaration of Independence. He is most widely known for his work as chairman of the building committee of Boston's Trinity Church in Copley Square, for his leadership of 19th century Boston philanthropists, and for his experiments in building housing for low-and middle-income workers.

Paine's brick row-house development on Greenwich and Sussex streets in Roxbury, MA is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Frederick Douglass Square Historic District. Another of his housing experiments, an 1890s 100-house subdivision between Round Hill and Sunnyside streets in Jamaica Plain, MA, has been deemed eligible for nomination to the National Register.

[edit] See also

• Robert Treat Paine Estate, a collaboration between Henry Hobson Richardson and Frederick Law Olmsted

[edit] References

• List of Registered Historic Places in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
• Stonehurst -- the Robert Treat Paine Estate, Waltham, Massachusetts
• Trinity Boston Preservation Trust
• Round Hill-Sunnyside -- proposed National Register historic district in Jamaica Plain, MA