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The Alvah Kittredge House
10 Linwood Street, Roxbury
Greek Revival Style, circa 1836

(1999-present)
HBI included this house in its 1999 Preservation Revolving Fund Casebook
HBI successfully nominated the house to Preservation Mass' 10 Most Endangered Properties List in 2004 after its condition continued to deteriorate.
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In 2005 and 2006, using funds awarded from the Northeast Office of the National Trust of Historic Preservation and the Boston Redevelopment Authority, along with HBI's own monies, HBI commissioned a structural engineering study of the building and carried out the emergency stabilization of its grand portico, which had lost two of its original six monumental ionic columns and seem destined for collapse. HBI continues to work with the Kittredge House's non-profit owner to facilitate redevelopment of the property in a viable, historically appropriate way.