173 Commonwealth Avenue Update 07/21/23

Historic Back Bay Brownstone Trades for $14.5M

The historic purple pane neo-georgian style brownstone located at 173 Commonwealth Avenue has been sold for $14,500,000, the first time the property has traded in over 50 years. The property was originally designed and built in 1879 by the legendary architects, Peabody and Stearns, as a single family home for Roger Wolcott (former Governor of Massachusetts) and redesigned by Boston-born architect J. Harleston Parker in 1917, this distinctive and spectacular home is adorned with many original Gilded Age details. The building was converted into an apartment building in 1944 and features 8 apartments, a head house, a roof deck with commanding panoramic views of Boston & Cambridge, and 3 single parking spaces.

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