Lyman Estate & Stonehurst

A 90 minute walk to explore the grounds of 2 adjacent, estate propreties in Waltham - Lyman Estate and Stonehurst, the Robert Treat Paine Estate. The Western Greenway trail passes thru both properties.

Stonehurst is a country house set on 109 acres. It was designed for philanthropist Robert Treat Paine (1835–1910) in a collaboration between architect Henry Hobson Richardson and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Since 1974 the estate has been owned by the City of Waltham and its grounds kept as a public park, with the building rented for weddings and events.

The Lyman Estate, also known as “the Vale,” is a National Historic Landmark and one of the finest U.S. examples of a country estate following eighteenth-century English naturalistic design. In 1793 shipping merchant Theodore Lyman commissioned famed architect Samuel McIntire to design and build a Federal-style house for his family.