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Home of the Week: In old Boston chocolate factory, the suite life

The one-bedroom condo comes with 1.5 baths, a river view, two parking spaces, expansive windows, and modern updates

The unit boasts floor-to-ceiling windows. Patrick Garrigan/Remark Visions

By John R. Ellement, The Boston Globe

January 29, 2025

2 minutes to read

1255 Adams St., Unit 105, Dorchester

$699,999

Style Condo

Year built 1868/converted 1989/updated

Square feet 1,275

Bedrooms 1

Baths 1 full, 1 half

Fee $872 a month

Taxes $7,968 (2025, without residential exemption)

If real estate were a comfort food, this Dorchester condo would be a warm, fudgy brownie.

The first-floor home faces the Neponset River in the former Baker Chocolate Factory in Lower Mills. And, given that it’s in a post-Civil War factory, the windows are extensive. Sunshine arrives through 30 true divided-glass windows stitched into 6-foot-wide frames that run floor to ceiling. The open layout — encompassing the kitchen and the living and dining areas — has four.

The unit is in the former Baker Chocolate Factory. – Patrick Garrigan/Remark Visions

The unit’s entry is snuggled between the 81-square-foot galley-style kitchen on the right and the 195-square-foot dining area and 408-square-foot living area to the left. The dining area currently holds a table for eight under track lighting.

The kitchen features stainless steel appliances, brown smooth-front cabinetry that stretches to the ceiling, undermount lighting, and a long granite counter with a sink. The stove is electric.

Wash up for dinner at the white porcelain pedestal sink in the half bath adjacent to the kitchen. The flooring in the baths is ceramic tile, but luxury vinyl planks with a wood-like appearance run throughout the unit.

The kitchen features stainless steel appliances and granite counters. – Patrick Garrigan/Remark Visions

home — The dining area is open to the kitchen and living room. – Patrick Garrigan/Remark Visions

The living area has two of those factory windows to itself, and the redbrick accent wall is a nod to the exterior of the former factory complex.

A door in the living area opens to the 238-square-foot bedroom, where sun streams in through a pair of factory windows and track lighting hangs overhead. The owner installed an armoire, but there is a pair of closets.

The 112-square-foot full bath technically has a single vanity, but it is a long one topped with granite. A light with cylindrical globes hangs above a mirror that goes the vanity’s full length. The shower sits behind clear glass doors and offers a seat and a ceramic tile surround.

The home comes with a washer and dryer, deeded storage, and two off-street parking spaces, and heating and cooling is via heat pumps.

The complex amenities include an indoor heated lap pool, an elevator, a whirlpool, a sauna, a fitness center, a bike room, and a terrace with grills and a fire pit overlooking Baker Dam. The complex is 0.02 of a mile from the Milton Red Line trolley stop and the Neponset Greenway Trail.

The complex has an indoor heated pool. – Patrick Garrigan/Remark Visions

The complex terrace has seating, grills, and a fire pit overlooking the water. – Patrick Garrigan/Remark Visions

The monthly fee of the home includes water and sewer; master insurance; security; maintenance of the structure, road, and grounds; snow and trash removal; on-site professional management; hot water; and the reserve funds.

Jay Balaban of Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty in Jamaica Plain has the listing.

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