Workingmen’s Building Association
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The Workingmen's Building Association was one of Robert Treat Paine's philanthropic organizations that he started in an effort to invest the funds of the Workingmen's Cooperative Bank in housing development in Boston.
According to a 1902 article Paine published in the Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science,
The Workingmen's Building Association was organized in 1888, to build small separate houses for sale. Its first purchase of 668,591 feet, about three miles out in Roxbury, was most successful. This tract was divided into 150 lots, averaging 4,457 feet, so that one acre has ten lots with an estimated population of sixty to seventy souls. The houses cost from $1,800 to $3,000 and were almost all for single families, total cost of a house and land varying from $2,600 to $4,500. They were all sold by 1894.
The area he describes is the Round Hill - Sunnyside district.
Sources
Paine, Robert Treat. The Housing Conditions in Boston. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 20. (Jul., 1902), pp. 123-136. [1]
