“Beautiful and typical, just what Beacon Hill embodies,” is how the listing describes an impeccably preserved Federal-type home in Boston’s Beacon Hill community that’s just strike the sector for $10.75 million.
The 1827-produced property at 28 Chestnut Road was designed by a “housewright” (what we now call an architect) named Jesse Shaw, who was reportedly a relative of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the Union army officer who led the initial all-Black regiment in the Civil War, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry.
The Shaw spouse and children was identified in Boston as a prominent abolitionist family, and a person of the listing’s features can make testomony to this fact: a bunker, accessed by the property’s whole basement, that was a cease on the Underground Railroad.
The five-bedroom, six-bathroom household incorporates a two-car or truck garage nestled beside a private deck, all just a couple blocks from Boston Prevalent and the Boston General public Backyard garden. An take in-in kitchen, spouse and children place and official eating room all sit on the initial-ground degree of the residence. Meanwhile, the home’s higher flooring comprise the household workplace, a learn retreat, the further four bedrooms, a dwelling health club, residing parts, a songs space, and a sizable library with first detailing.
Whilst fireplaces are scattered through the residence, the listing description notes that 1 in the home’s master bed room will be especially welcome “for all those chilly New England winters.”
In addition to its storied past as a stop on the Underground Railroad, the assets also has a more carefree aspect to its historical past: the home’s very first-floor residing room was to begin with designed as a speakeasy, entire with an entrance out on to bustling Chestnut Street.
“Steps [away] from Charles Street with boutiques, places to eat and the Esplanade and a rapid jaunt to Boston Typical/Gardens and the means to enjoy all Beacon Hill has to present,” the listing description reads.
The residence is represented by Beth Dickerson of Gibson Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty.
Update: An earlier edition of this short article stated that the listing agent was a member of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty, but she is an agent with Gibson Sotheby’s Global Realty.
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