Located among 134 acres of woodlands and meadows, the Robert Treat Paine Estate, “Stonehurst”, is the only H.H. Richardson-designed house in Massachusetts open to the public. Set back from the street, “Stonehurst” is reached via a quarter-mile winding drive through a landscape designed by renowned American landscape architect Fredrick Law Olmsted.
Our firm was first retained by the City of Waltham in 1999 to assess and make recommendations for the preservation of the furniture collection, restoration of the exterior envelope, full accessibility to both floors, and a new central heating and cooling system. Exterior preservation work was completed in 2003, funded in part by a Save America’s Treasures grant. Schematic design for universal access improvements and a comprehensive interiors study was performed, and phased interior restoration commenced in Summer 2006.