The shame of Alvah Kittredge Square

Jonas Prang agrees the Roxbury square is looking much better these days - except, he writes, for Alvah Kittredge's house:

... This poor derelict presides over the square from its address of 10 Linwood Street. It is a wreck and it continues to slide toward destruction right before our eyes. ... The Roxbury Action Program (RAP) - whose name adorns the front of the building - owned this house in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. Preoccupied elsewhere in the neighborhood, RAP sat on the house and allowed it to deteriorate like any feckless, absentee landlord. Since that time RAP has pulled up stakes from 10 Linwood Street and has conveyed the property (probably in 1999) to Alexander Leroy who is trustee of something called the Linwood St Realty Trust. ...