A luxury townhouse with a unique position in Beacon Hill, and in Boston’s past
125 Mount Vernon Street in Beacon Hill has four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, and 4,000 square feet of living space – and it’s in the historic Charles Street Meeting House.
A townhouse for sale has a unique place in the center of Beacon Hill’s shopping district, but also in the history of race relations in Boston.
In 1807 when the Third Baptist Church built the Charles Street Meeting House in Beacon Hill, seating was segregated, as it was in many churches at the time, according to the National Park Service.
In the 1830s, after local abolitionist Timothy Gilbert invited African Americans to sit in his “white’’ section and was subsequently expelled from the church, some church members went and founded the Tremont Temple, which was the first integrated church in America.
Later in the late 1800s, the Third Baptist Church changed its ways and took an anti-slavery stance, hosting abolitionist speakers such as Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass.
The church changed hands a variety of times over the course of the late 19th and 20th centuries, until 1980 when the Charles Street Meeting House Associates purchased the building, rescuing it from disrepair.
The Associates restored the exterior and interior, giving it a new life with office, retail, and residential uses.
125 Mount Vernon Street, the four-story home that is now for sale in the building, has four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, and 4,000 square feet of living space. It is listed for $3.9 million.
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“It’s not your traditional townhouse,’’ Sally Brewster, the listing agent for the property from Brewster & Berkowitz Real Estate, said. “First of all it’s in a fabulous location in the heart of Beacon Hill and has incredible architectural detail that take your breath away.’’
Some of that detail includes a winding, skinny staircase, a circular doorway, floor-to-ceiling windows, and exposed wooden beams on the ceiling.
Brewster also mentioned that the home has a private garden and its own separate entryway from the other offices in the building.
Other amenities include a new rubber roof, video intercom, fresh paint, a private elevator to the fourth floor, central air conditioning, a patio, and a roof deck.
The home has been on and off the market a variety of times over the last few years, according to Curbed Boston, with the price coming down each time.
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