Inside Look: Historic Beacon Hill mansion on the market for $20M

Beacon Hill has long been one of the most historic and luxurious neighborhoods in Boston. In fact, the 18th century architect Charles Bulfinch—who designed the Massachusetts State House—originally planned for landscape of the area to focus heavily on freestanding mansions, according to the city of Boston.

Those mansions were originally intended to stand on large plots of land around a public square. While Bulfinch wasn’t able to focus solely on mansions—the prevailing architecture of theneighborhood includesrowhouses and pairs of houses that are symmetrical in design—a few of these historic Beacon Hill mansions are still standing, and one of them is 40 Beacon Street.

40 Beacon Street is on the market as a current single-family home. One of Boston’s largest and oldest Beacon Hill mansions, 40 Beacon Street includes 13 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms in itsmore than 20,000 square feet of space.

The existing configuration of this home features threeseparate areas as designed by famed Boston architectAlexander Parris. First is amain house that has a grand access off of Beacon Street, a living room, a master bedroom plus six guestbedrooms, a sitting room overlooking Boston Common and a 1,300-square-foot roof deck.

“The Link” is next, and encompasses the kitchen, family room, two bedrooms and a garden terrace. The first floor of this area even includes a “turn-of-the-century ballroom” with a service kitchen and elevators to the floors above.

After that comes the “Carriage House,” which you enter through a gated driveway. Here, you’ll find four more bedrooms, a dance studio,home gym, three-car garage, wine cellar and storage all in five floors of space.

The expansive home is on the market for $20 million. Though it is setup as a single-family home now, it can possible be sold as four or fiveunits. Proposed redevelopments to turn thisone mansion into a multi-unit building can be seen here and would include expanding the home with 1,844 additional square feet as well as addingunderground parking for nine vehicles in the existing basement.

For more on this listing contactColliers International at (617-330-8013).