From Dave Brigham:
You like my new digs?
Located along Commonwealth Avenue in Boston's Back Bay, this place is just absolutely amazing. Known as the Burrage House, this mansion was built in 1899 as a private residence. Over the years, it was converted to doctors' offices, and then the Boston Evening Clinic, and then a nursing home, before being redeveloped as condos, according to a 1989 Boston Landmarks Commission report.
The 28-room mansion was built for lawyer and philanthropist Albert C. Burrage and his family, at a cost of $600,000, which is about $18.5 million in today's dollars. Per Wikipedia, Burrage was affiliated with several Boston-area gas light companies, was involved in copper mining and served on the Boston Transit Commission, which was responsible for building the city's subway system, the oldest in the United States.
The home remained in the Burrage clan until 1947, when the attorney's wife, Alice, died.
Tom Brady lived here many years ago, according to the Internet. Condos here have sold for in excess of $10 million.
Now I am dating myself. I used to go there when it was Boston Evening Medical Center...that would be the '80's.
ReplyDeleteInteresting! What's the interior of that building like? Was it weird being at a medical center in such a distinctive building?
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