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The R. H. Stearns Building is an 11-story residence building (with shops at ground level) at 140
Tremont Street Tremont Street is a major thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts. Tremont Street begins at Government Center in Boston's city center as a continuation of Cambridge Street, and forms the eastern edge of Boston Common. Continuing in a roughly so ...
in
Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
. It was built in 1909 for the businessman
R. H. Stearns Richard Hall Stearns (25 December 1824 – August, 1909) was a wealthy tradesman, philanthropist, and politician from Massachusetts whose eponymous department store became one of the largest department store chains in Boston and the surrounding a ...
and his company and was the home of the
R. H. Stearns and Company R. H. Stearns & Company, or Stearns, as it was commonly called, was an upper-middle market department store based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded by R. H. Stearns in 1847. The flagship store was located on Tremont Street, opposite Boston Co ...
department storeRossiter, William Sidney, ed.
''Days and ways in old Boston''
3rd ed. Boston: R.H. Stearns and Company, 1914. until the company's demise in 1978. The Stearns store had been in many locations in Boston before finally settling in its new building and headquarters at 140 Tremont Street. Since 1886 Stearns & Co. occupied and leased a re-modeled building on the site of the old Boston
Masonic Temple A Masonic Temple or Masonic Hall is, within Freemasonry, the room or edifice where a Masonic Lodge meets. Masonic Temple may also refer to an abstract spiritual goal and the conceptual ritualistic space of a meeting. Development and history In ...
, until it was completely torn down and the new R. H. Stearns building put up in 1908. R. H. Stearns & Company ceased operations in 1978, and the building was converted to 140 studio and one-bedroom apartments for older adults and people with disabilities. The building was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
as R. H. Stearns House in 1980.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston, Massachusetts __NOTOC__ Boston, Massachusetts is home to many listings on the National Register of Historic Places. This list encompasses those locations that are located north of the Massachusetts Turnpike. See National Register of Historic Places listings in s ...


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Images

File:R. H. Stearns Building Boston MA.jpg, 2009 photo of the R.H. Stearns Building taken from the Boston Common looking east across Tremont Street File:MasonicTemple TremontSt Boston engr byAnnin and Smith LC.jpg, Masonic Temple at the corner of Tremont St. and Temple Place. Replaced by the Stearns building.


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Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Beaux-Arts architecture in Massachusetts Residential buildings completed in 1909 Financial District, Boston Buildings and structures in Boston National Register of Historic Places in Boston {{Boston-struct-stub