Built 1909 Opened 1909 Architectural style Beaux-Arts architecture | NRHP Reference # 80000671 Area 3,642 m² Added to NRHP 16 June 1980 | |
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Location 140 Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts Similar Boston Common, Deer Island Light, Faneuil Hall, The First Church of Christ - Sc, St Mary – St Catherine | ||
The R. H. Stearns Building is an 11 story residence building (with shops at ground level) at 140 Tremont Street in Boston. It was built in 1909 for the businessman R. H. Stearns and his company and was the home of the R. H. Stearn and Company department store until its 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, until it was completely torn down and the new R.H. Stearns building put up in 1908.
R. H. Stearns and Company ceased operations on 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 as R. H. Stearns House in 1980.