Hyde Square Worker Housing is built.

(to 1899) Architect: George Pope. Built by the Workingman’s Building Association founded by Robert Treat Paine Jr., the similarly-designed, single-family, wood-framed houses are located on the site of the former William Heath farm on today’s Edge Hill Street, Gay Head Street, Round Hill Street, Sunnyside Street, and Westerly Street. Proposed as a “Workers’ utopia,” it is intended to enable workers to leave inner-city slums. The houses are financed by “level monthly payments” of amortized mortgages granted by the Workingman’s Cooperative Bank. Construction began in 1889.