Home of the Week

Home of the Week: Four-level loft apartment in Boston’s South End for $1.25m

It’s located in the former production area for P.P. Caproni and Brother, which made plaster reproductions of famous sculptures.

The living room features a gas fireplace. Umbrianna Media / Mike O'Donoghue

By John R. Ellement

February 18, 2026

4 minutes to read

8-14 Newcomb St., South End, Boston

$1.25 million

Style Condo

Year built 1900

Square feet 1,466

Bedrooms 2

Baths 2 full, 1 half

Sewer/Water Public

Fee $629 month

Taxes $7,721 (2026)

Pets Allowed with negotiable restrictions

8-14 Newcomb St., Unit 4, in Boston is located in the former showroom for PP Caproni & Brother. – Umbrianna Media / Mike O’Donoghue

This South End unit is called a loft, given the 14-foot-high ceilings, a gift of the building’s prior role as a factory for plaster death masks of historic figures, among other things.

Located in what was the production area for P.P. Caproni and Brother, a plaster mold company created by two Italian immigrants around 1904, the front door is sheltered within a curved and bricked entryway.

The loft-style unit has four levels. – Umbrianna Media / Mike O’Donoghue

Railings in the home are steel, a reflection of the industrial past.
*– Umbrianna Media / Mike O’Donoghue*

Inside, Unit 4 has a layout commonly found in an suburban split-level/quad-level home. The first floor features the dining and kitchen areas, which include a view of the living room one level above. And the way to reach the ground floor is via a corkscrew stairwell located in the corner of the dining/kitchen space. The primary bedroom is one layer above the living room.

But for the bathrooms, the entire home has solid maple hardwood flooring. Railings are steel, a reflection of the industrial past, and the beams running across the ceilings are old-growth chestnut.

The kitchen and dining areas lead up to the living room. – Umbrianna Media / Mike O’Donoghue

The 210-square-foot dining area has an pendant lights and 200 square feet of storage space nestled into the wall underneath the living room. The 135-square-foot kitchen is partially separated by a portion of the granite-topped counter, creating a potential sitting area in the process.

The kitchen is rectangular with two layers of cabinetry on the right side and slabbed doors on the left. All are of light blonde maple, and some of the cabinets have glass doors. The refrigerator and double ovens are inset and on the left, while the sink is on the right. The stove is gas-powered.

The kitchen has a gas stove. – Umbrianna Media / Mike O’Donoghue

The area ends in a half-bath/laundry room. A sloped rectangular porcelain sink sits atop a Grecian-style column, adding a new variation to the pedestal sink design. Behind mirrored doors on the right wall is the stacked, full-sized, washer/dryer combo.

The second bedroom suite occupies the entirety of the unit’s ground floor and has two above-ground windows. In the full bath, there’s exposed steel piping. The shower’s backsplash and bath flooring are limestone, and the sink is a metal bowl in a green counter.

The living room. – Umbrianna Media / Mike O’Donoghue

From the dining room, a short stairwell leads upwards to the 314-square-foot living room — the home’s largest space — that reflects the unit’s origin story. There are no support columns though the room is almost 25 feet wide and has the 14-foot high ceilings. The front exterior wall has three banks of windows, each with two double-hung windows topped by transom windows. More evidence of its past life: exposed red brick.

But in a sign of its present, hanging from the ceiling is a chandelier made of an LED light string that looks like a tornado, and resting up against that red brick wall is a modern gas fireplace.

The primary suite occupies the top floor. Enhancing the privacy is a stairwell with iron railings that has to be traversed in order to reach it.

The primary bedroom is located on the top floor. – Umbrianna Media / Mike O’Donoghue

The front wall is lined with glass doors that provide natural light and enhance air circulation. The bedroom continues the use of maple flooring, and the ceiling is crossed by old growth beams set against white painte. Two closets are located in the rear of the bedroom.

One of the glass doors leads to a short, curved connecting walkway overlooking the living room that leads to the private bath. Directly ahead is a free-standing bathroom vanity with an attached tower that has three separate doors with glass windows. On either side of the tower are granite counters with undermounted sinks, silvery faucets, and large square mirrors. To the right and guarded by a curtain hanging from a curving rod that matches the curve of the floor is the shower. There is both a rain shower head and a hand-held shower. The flooring and the shower backsplash are limestone.

One of three bathrooms in the unit. – Umbrianna Media / Mike O’Donoghue

The unit comes with one parking space, and a second is available for another $35,000, per the listing agent.

The roof deck is shared with the other eight units. There is also shared bike storage. Heat is via forced hot air and there is central air conditioning.

There is planned work on the building’s facade this year, but the cost estimate is not yet known, according to the listing agent.

Frank Carroll of Compass on Newbury Street in Boston has the listing.

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